Zenon of Tarsus
Zeno of Tarsus was a Greek philosopher whose main creative period was in the late 3rd and early 2nd centuries BC. Chr. Lay.
Presumably he was around 235 BC. He was born in BC and came from the city of Tarsus , possibly of Phoenician origin. Zeno of Tarsus was a son of Dioscurides and a pupil of Chrysippos of Soloi , through whom he came to the Stoa founded by Zeno of Kition . When his teacher in 206 BC Died, Zenon became Scholarch of the Stoic School in Athens ; his own successor in this office was Diogenes of Babylon .
By founding his own school, he quickly gained recognition, but hardly deviated from the teachings of Chrysippus. However, he is said to have questioned the ecpyrosis theory .
Diogenes Laertios narrates that he left behind few writings, but is said to have trained a large number of students for them. In a fragment found in Herculaneum from the work of Philodemos of Gadara on the history of the Stoa, two of his pupils ( Diogenes from Seleukeia and Archedemos from Tarsus ) and the title of one of his works are preserved. Accordingly, he has included a five-book work against the philosopher Hieronymos of Rhodes . According to Wilhelm Crönert , the text fragments that have survived also indicate that the writings of Zenon were classified as unorthodox by later Stoics .
swell
- Hans von Arnim : Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta Reprint, BG Teubner, Stuttgart 1964, Vol. 3, p. 209 ( online , compilation of all sources known from 1905 on Zenon von Tarsos in original language).
literature
- István Bodnár: Zenon 8th In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 12/1, Metzler, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-476-01482-7 , column 752.
- Kurt von Fritz : Zenon 4. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XA, Stuttgart 1972, Sp. 122.
- Richard Goulet: Zénon de Tarse. In: Richard Goulet (ed.): Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques. Volume 7, CNRS Éditions, Paris 2018, ISBN 978-2-271-09024-9 , pp. 415-417
Individual evidence
- ↑ Suda , zeta 80 ( English translation ).
- ^ Eusebius of Caesarea , Praeparatio evangelica XV, 18 ( English translation ).
- ^ Diogenes Laertios , Lives and Opinions of Famous Philosophers VII, 84.
- ↑ Areios Didymos , fragment 36 ( Diels ).
- ^ Diogenes Laertios , Lives and Opinions of Famous Philosophers VII, 35.
- ↑ Philodemos of Gadara , Index Stoicorum (PHerc. 1018), col. 48.
- ^ Wilhelm Crönert : Kolotes and Menedemos. Kolotes and Menedemus. Texts and studies on the history of philosophers and literature (= studies on palaeography and papyrus studies. Vol. 6.) E. Avenarius, Leipzig 1906, p. 195.
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| SURNAME | Zenon of Tarsus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zeno Tarsensis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek stoic philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 235 BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd century BC Chr. |