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STILPO [STILPON]

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 922 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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STILPO [STILPON] , See also:Greek philosopher of the Megarian school (q.v.), was a contemporary of See also:Theophrastus and See also:Crates. Intellectually in agreement with the Megarian See also:dialectic, he followed the See also:practical See also:ethics of the See also:Cynics both in theory and in practice. He extolled the Cynic a,raBei.a (loosely, self-See also:control) as the See also:principal virtue. See also:Cicero (De fato, 5) describes him as a See also:man of the highest See also:character. Suidas attributes twenty dialogues to him, but of these no fragments remain. Among his followers were See also:Menedemus and See also:Asclepiades, the leaders of the Eretrian school of See also:philosophy. See also:Seneca (See also:Epistle 9) shows how closely allied Stilpo was to the See also:Stoics (q.v.).

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