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In which city was Stoicism founded?
Answer: Athens
Why: Stoicism spread to Rome later, where Panaetius of Rhodes did much to introduce its doctrines in the second century BC.
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Where was Seneca born?
Answer: Córdoba
Why: He was taken to Rome by his aunt as a young child, probably at about the age of five.
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Which good feeling did Stoics allow the wise in place of fear?
Answer: Caution
Why: Caution counted as rational avoidance, while fear was a passion: an expectation of something bad.
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Who founded Stoicism?
Answer: Zeno of Citium
Why: He is not the Zeno of the motion paradoxes: Zeno of Elea lived over a century earlier, in southern Italy.
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Who wrote down the lectures of Epictetus?
Answer: Arrian
Why: Epictetus left no known writings of his own, so both the Discourses and the Handbook reach us through Arrian.
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How did Cleanthes earn money at night while studying?
Answer: Drawing water
Why: Before he took up philosophy, Cleanthes had been a successful boxer.
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