Figure 3.5. Realignment of Schools
in the Roman Conquest, 200
b.c.e.–1 c.e.
200 b.c.e.126 Basilides (Epicurean scholarch)
127 Zeno of Tarsus (Stoic)
129 Critolaus (Aristotelean
materialist, neo-Pythagorean)
130 Diogenes of Babylon (Stoic
scholarch)
131? 3 Stoics after Chrysippus
(Eudromus, Crinus, Basilides)
132? 5 Aristoteleans (Sotion,
Satyrus, Antisthenes of
Rhodes, Heraclides Lembus,
Agatharchides)
133? Cratippus (Aristotelean,
changed from Academic)
134 Diodorus of Tyre
(Aristotelean, eclectic
materialist, Epicurean)
135? Callipho, Dinomachus
(Aristotelean/Epicurean
syncretism)
136 Phormio (Aristotelean)
137 Aristobolus of Alexandria
(Jewish theol, allegorized
Greek myths)
138 Boethus (Stoic)
(139) Apollodorus of Seleucia
(Stoic, rhetor)
(140) Apollodorus of Athens (same)
141 Archedemus of Tarsus (f.
Stoic school, Babylon)
142 Antipater of Tarsus (Stoic
scholarch)
143–144 Alceus, Philiscus (Epicureans
at Rome)
145 Protarchus of Barghilia
(Epicurean)
146 Demetrius of Laconia
(Epicurean)
147 Apollodorus “the Tyrant of
the Garden” (Epicurean)
148 Philonides of Laodicea (Syria
Epicurean, math)
149 Clitomachus
(Academic/Skeptic)
150 Metrodorus of Stratonicea
(Academic, from Epicurean
school)
151? Meleagra of Gadara
(Cynic)
152 Charmadas (Academic/rhetor)
153 Mnesarchus (Stoic)
(154) Polybius (historian)
100 b.c.e.
i 155 Heraclides of Tarentum
(empiricist medicine)
156 Dio of Alexandria (Academic)
i 157 Aristus (Academic, brother of
Antiochus of Ascalon,
successor)
i 158 Theomnestus (Academic)
159 L. Aelius Stilo (Stoic, rhetor)
160 Varro (eclectic, Stoic)
(161) Lucullus (politician, patron)
162 Rutilius Rufus (Stoic)
163 Alexander Polyhister
(Pythagorean, eclectic)
164 Nigidius Figulus (Pythagorean)
165 Asclepiades of Bythynia
(medicine, Epicurean, Rome)
166 Zeno of Sidon (Epicurean,
math)
167 Phaedrus (Epicurean, Rome)
168 Patronus (same)
169 Amalfinus (Epicurean, Italy)
170 Sciro (Epicurean, Rome)
(171) Calpurnius Piso (Julius
Caesar’s father-in-law)
i 172 Philostratus (rhetor, skeptic,
Academic-Sophist)
173 Tyrranio (edited Aristotle’s
manuscripts)Keys to Figures • 897