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See also:PANAETIUS (c. 185-18o to See also:I10-108 B.C.) , See also:Greek Stoic philosopher, belonged to a Rhodian See also:family, but was probably educated partly in See also:Pergamum under See also:Crates of Mallus and after-wards in See also:Athens, where he attended the lectures of See also:Diogenes the Babylonian, See also:Critolaus and See also:Carneades . He subsequently went to See also:Rome, where he became the friend of See also:Laelius and of Scipio the Younger . He lived as a See also:guest in the See also:house of the latter, and accompanied him on his See also:mission to See also:Egypt and See also:Asia (143 or 141) . He returned with Scipio to Rome, where he did much to intro-duce Stoic doctrines and Greek See also:philosophy . He had a number of distinguished See also:Romans as pupils, amongst them Q . Mucius See also:Scaevola the augur and Q . Aelius Tubero . After the See also:murder of Scipio in 129, he resided by turns in Athens and Rome, but chiefly in Athens, where he succeeded See also:Antipater of See also:Tarsus as See also:head of the Stoic school . The right of citizenship was offered him by the Athenians, but he refused it . His See also:chief See also:pupil in philosophy was See also:Posidonius of See also:Apamea . In his teaching he laid stress on See also:ethics; and his most important See also:works, of which only insignificant fragments are preserved, were on this subject . They are as follow: Hepi Tou KatitiovTos (On See also:Duty), in three books, the See also:original of the first two books of See also:Cicero's De officiis; Hepi srpovotas (On See also:Providence), used by Cicero in his De divinatione (ii.) and probably in See also:part of the second See also:book of the De Deorum natura; a See also:political See also:treatise (perhaps called Hepi .nroXtnnKfls), used by Cicero in his De republica; Hepi euBvµtas (On Cheerfulness); Hepi aipEoewv (On Philosophical See also:Schools); a See also:letter to Q . Aelius Tubero; De dolore patiendo (Cicero, De finibus, iv . 9, 23) . Edition of the fragments by H . N . See also:Fowler (See also:Bonn, 1885), and in F. See also:van Lynden's monograph (See also:Leiden, 1802) . See also A . Schmekel, See also:Die Philosophie der mittleren See also:Stoa (1892) ; F . Susemihl, Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur in der Alexandrinerzeit (1892), H . 63–8o; E . See also:Zeller, " Beitrage zur Kenntniss See also:des Stoikers Panatius " in Cornmentationes philologae in honorem Th . Mommseni (1877) ; on the use made of him by Cicero, R . Hirzel, Untersuchungen > u Ciceros philosophischen Schriften (1877-1883) . For his importance in the Stoic See also:succession and his philosophy generally, see See also:STOICS . |
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