Hegesias, a Cyrenaic philosopher, circa 300 B.C.

Epicurus, d. 270 B.C., founder of the Epicurean philosophy.

Zeno, d. 264 B.C., founder of the Stoic philosophy.

Cleanthes, d. 240 B.C., a pupil of Zeno.

Cicero, d. 43 B.C.

Seneca, d. A.D. 65.

Pliny the Elder, d. A.D. 79.

Epictetus, d. circa A.D. 100.

Plutarch, d. A.D. 140.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, a Stoic, d. A.D. 180.