Stoics

Reading notes

• The Annals §14.57 Stoics

  The Stoic school, whose tenets (Tigellinus alleged) made Plautus turbulent.

• The Histories §3.82 Stoics

  The Stoic school, whose ethics of virtue, endurance, and indifference to fortune shaped much of the senatorial opposition's moral stance under the principate.

• The Histories §4.5 teachers of wisdom

  The Stoic philosophers, whose doctrine—that only the honorable is good and only the base evil, all else indifferent—formed Helvidius Priscus's creed of principled opposition.