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Antipater Tarsensis
Antipater Tarsensis
c. 200 BCE–c. 130 BCE · Athens
Antipater of Tarsus was a Greek Stoic philosopher of the 2nd century BCE who became head of the Stoic school at Athens, succeeding Diogenes of Babylon. He contributed to Stoic logic and ethics and was a teacher of Panaetius, helping transmit Stoicism toward the Roman world. His writings survive only in fragments and later testimony.
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Athens, the capital of Greece since 1834, was the leading intellectual centre of the classical Greek world. Socrates taught there, and four major philosophical schools took root in the city: Plato's Academy, founded around 387 BCE, Aristotle's Lyceum, the Stoa of Zeno, and Epicurus' Garden. Under Hellenistic and Roman rule Athens remained a place of study that drew students from across the empire; in the 4th century CE the Christian writers Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nazianzus studied there together, while Neoplatonist teachers kept lecturing. Emperor Justinian's ban on pagan teaching of philosophy in 529 is generally taken to mark the end of the city's ancient history.
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