Stoicism
Prof. Bailly
Introductory Material part 2

• Dictionary definitions again
• Why "Sto-ic?"
• -ic is from a Greek adjective ending, -ikos,-ike, -ikon
• a stoa is a building, a roofed colonnade, also called a 'portico,' or even a 'porch'
• stoa poikile wiki
  
• image of a reconstruction drawing of the stoa poikile
• location of stoa poikile in agora at Athens
  
• archaeology and the stoa poikile
• Why were the Stoics called "Stoics"?
• Zeno of Citium (wikipedia), founder of the school, taught there in the fourth century B.C.
• Other philosophical schools were known for their buildings: the Academy of the Platonists, the Lyceum of the Aristotelian "peripatetics," the "garden" of Epicurus.
  
• Broad Ancient time frame for this class:
• 300BCE - 180CE
• so almost 500 years of Ancient Stoicism
  
• Zeno arrived in Athens and began teaching around 300 BCE
• Marcus Aurelius, the latest ancient author we read, died in 180CE
• Some names (to be fleshed out during the course):
• Greeks:
  
• Zeno (c. 335-262 BCE), founder of school of Stoicism
• Cleanthes, his successor, a boxer
  
• Chrysippus (c. 280-208 BCE), Cleanthes' successor and Stoicism's intellectual giant
• Epictetus (50 CE-120 CE), a later Stoic
• Romans:
• Cicero (106-43BCE), not a Stoic, but sympathetic to Stoic ethics
• Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE), a Stoic
• Marcus Aurelius (121-180 CE), a Stoic, Roman Emperor