Panaetius of Rhodes
c. 185 BCE–c. 110 BCE · Rhodes
Head of the Middle Stoa; softened Stoicism and, through the Scipionic Circle, transmitted it to Rome — the direct source of Cicero's De Officiis.
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RhodesרודוסAegean (Greece)
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About Rhodes
Rhodes is the largest of the Dodecanese islands of Greece, in the southeastern Aegean off the coast of Asia Minor. In the Hellenistic and Roman periods it was a renowned centre of rhetoric, philosophy and astronomy: the Stoic Panaetius was a native, the Stoic Posidonius ran his school there, and the astronomers Hipparchus and Geminus worked on the island. Herod the Great met Octavian at Rhodes around 30 BCE and was confirmed as king of Judea. The island was later held by the Knights Hospitaller, the Ottomans and Italy before joining Greece in 1947. Its ancient Jewish community built the Kahal Shalom synagogue in 1577, the oldest in Greece; most of the community was deported and killed under German occupation.
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