Dissertationum a Lucio digestarum reliquiae
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Musonius Rufus
Musonius Rufus
c. 30 CE–c. 101 CE · Rome
Gaius Musonius Rufus (c. 30-before 102 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher who taught at Rome and was exiled more than once for his outspokenness. Remembered as 'the Roman Socrates,' he stressed that philosophy is a practical guide to virtuous living, and his surviving lectures (preserved in Greek by a pupil) address topics such as marriage, self-discipline, and the equal capacity of women for philosophy. He was the teacher of Epictetus.
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About Rome
Rome, on the Tiber in central Italy, grew from an Iron Age settlement into the capital of the Roman Republic and then of an empire that by the 1st century CE ruled the whole Mediterranean. Its Jewish community, attested from the 2nd century BCE, is among the oldest in Europe. Christian tradition holds that the apostles Peter and Paul died there, and the city became the seat of the popes. After the Western Empire ended in 476 it passed to Gothic kings, to Byzantium and then to papal rule as capital of the Papal States, until it became the capital of unified Italy in 1871. Vatican City, independent since 1929, lies within it.
In Rome at the same time
Seneca the Elder, Tiberius, Celsus, Valerius Maximus, Phaedrus, Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
Across the traditions, in Rome at the same time
In the same place & time
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Sages whose lives overlapped with Musonius Rufus’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
Across the traditions
- Philo of Alexandria· Rome
- Peter the Apostle· Rome
- Paul the Apostle· Rome
- John the Apostle· Rome
- Aquila· Rome
- Priscilla· Rome
- Berenice· Rome
- Josephus· Rome
- Rabbi Yehoshua· Rome
- Rabban Gamliel of Yavneh· Rome
- Eleazar ben Azaryah· Rome
- Evaristus, Bishop of Rome· Rome
- Anacletus, Bishop of Rome· Rome
- Linus, Bishop of Rome· Rome
- Mark the Evangelist· Rome
- Luke the Evangelist· Rome
- Clement of Rome· Rome
In the same tradition
Seneca the Elder, Tiberius, Celsus, Valerius Maximus, Phaedrus, Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus, Curtius Rufus, Quintus, Pliny, the Elder, Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius, Petronius Arbiter, Persius, Quintilian, Titus, Lucan, Martial, Valerius Flaccus, Gaius, Statius, P. Papinius (Publius Papinius)
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Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Musonius Rufus’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.