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Ariston of Chios
Ariston of Chios
c. 300 BCE–c. 240 BCE · Athens
Ariston of Chios was a Greek Stoic philosopher of the 3rd century BCE, a pupil of Zeno of Citium who taught at Athens. He took a distinctive line within Stoicism, concentrating on ethics and rejecting the study of physics and logic as useless, and he denied that anything between virtue and vice has real moral value. His writings are lost, surviving only in later reports.
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About Athens
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.
In Athens at the same time
Theophrastus, Dinarchus, Demetrius of Phaleron, Menander, Epicurus, Crantor
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Sages whose lives overlapped with Ariston of Chios’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
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Theophrastus, Dinarchus, Demetrius of Phaleron, Menander, Epicurus, Crantor, Zeno of Citium, Cleanthes, Hermarchus of Mytilene, Arcesilaus, Chrysippus
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Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Ariston of Chios’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.