Epicureans and Stoics

Chapter Three ATHENE AND HER OWL: THE WISDOM OF THE GREEKS
2. The Shape and Content of First-Century Philosophy
(iii) Epicureans and Stoics

By then, however, two major new schools, and two related minor but still significant ones, had come in to join the Academy and the Peripatetics. Plato and Aristotle were joined on the philosophers’ top table by Epicurus and Zeno, the Garden and the Stoa. Epicurus, who gave his name to Epicureanism, and Zeno, the founder of Stoicism, put down markers which still function well today. Epicureanism, in one form or another, is regularly assumed within western civilization, while Stoicism is frequently invoked both as a kind of reaction and as a compelling worldview in its own right.44...