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Single Idea 11486
[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 2. Ancient Philosophy / a. Ancient chronology
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Full Idea
In about 229 BCE Chrysippus took over from Cleanthes as the head of the Stoic school
Gist of Idea
229 (roughly): Chrysippus replaced Cleanthes has head of the Stoa
Source
PG (Db (chronology) [2030], 0771)
The
42 ideas
with the same theme
[events in philosophy up to 642 CE]:
11461
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323 (roughly): Euclid wrote 'Elements', summarising all of geometry
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11390
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1000 (roughly): Upanishads written (in Sanskrit); religious and philosophical texts
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11391
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750 (roughly): the Book of Genesis written by Hebrew writers
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11392
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586: eclipse of the sun on the coast of modern Turkey was predicted by Thales of Miletus
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11395
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570: Anaximander flourished in Miletus
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11396
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563: the Buddha born in northern India
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11398
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540: Lao Tzu wrote 'Tao Te Ching', the basis of Taoism
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11400
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529: Pythagoras created his secretive community at Croton in Sicily
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11403
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500: Heraclitus flourishes at Ephesus, in modern Turkey
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11404
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496: Confucius travels widely, persuading rulers to be more moral
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11408
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472: Empedocles persuades his city (Acragas in Sicily) to become a democracy
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11412
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450 (roughly): Parmenides and Zeno visit Athens from Italy
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11414
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445: Protagoras helps write laws for the new colony of Thurii
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11417
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436 (roughly): Anaxagoras is tried for impiety, and expelled from Athens
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11421
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427: Gorgias visited Athens as ambassador for Leontini
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11425
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399: Socrates executed (with Plato absent through ill health)
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11432
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387 (roughly): Plato returned to Athens, and founded the Academy
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11433
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387 (roughly): Aristippus the Elder founder a hedonist school at Cyrene
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11440
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367: the teenaged Aristotle came to study at the Academy
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11443
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360 (roughly): Diogenes of Sinope lives in a barrel in central Athens
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11445
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347: death of Plato
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11454
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343: Aristotle becomes tutor to 13 year old Alexander (the Great)
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11456
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335: Arisotle founded his school at the Lyceum in Athens
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11459
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330 (roughly): Chuang Tzu wrote his Taoist book
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11465
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322: Aristotle retired to Chalcis, and died there
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11468
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307 (roughly): Epicurus founded his school at the Garden in Athens
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11470
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301 (roughly): Zeno of Citium founded Stoicism at the Stoa Poikile in Athens
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11483
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261: Cleanthes replaced Zeno as head of the Stoa
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11486
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229 (roughly): Chrysippus replaced Cleanthes has head of the Stoa
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11492
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157 (roughly): Carneades became head of the Academy
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11509
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85: most philosophical activity moves to Alexandria
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11513
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78: Cicero visited the stoic school on Rhodes
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11516
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60 (roughly): Lucretius wrote his Latin poem on epicureanism
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11528
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65: Seneca forced to commit suicide by Nero
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11531
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80: the discourses of the stoic Epictetus are written down
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11535
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170 (roughly): Marcus Aurelius wrote his private stoic meditations
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11537
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-200 (roughly): Sextus Empiricus wrote a series of books on scepticism
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11541
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263: Porphyry began to study with Plotinus in Rome
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11545
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310: Christianity became the official religion of the Roman empire
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11549
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387: Ambrose converts Augustine to Christianity
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11555
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523: Boethius imprisoned at Pavia, and begins to write
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11557
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529: the emperor Justinian closes all the philosophy schools in Athens
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