Dardanus of Athens
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Dardanus of Athens, was a Stoic
STOIC
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 philosopher, lived c. 160-c. 85 BC.

He was a pupil of Diogenes of Babylon and Antipater of Tarsus
Antipater of Tarsus
Antipater of Tarsus was a Stoic philosopher. He was the pupil and successor of Diogenes of Babylon as leader of the Stoic school, and was the teacher of Panaetius...

. Cicero
Cicero
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 mentions him as being one of the leaders of the Stoic school at Athens
Athens
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 together with Mnesarchus
Mnesarchus of Athens
Mnesarchus or Mnesarch , of Athens, was a Stoic philosopher, lived c. 160-c. 85 BC.He was a pupil of Diogenes of Babylon and Antipater of Tarsus. Cicero says that he was one of the leaders of the Stoic school at Athens together with Dardanus at a time when Antiochus of Ascalon was turning away...

 at a time when Antiochus of Ascalon
Antiochus of Ascalon
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 was turning away from scepticism
Philosophical skepticism
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 (c. 95 BC). After the death of Panaetius
Panaetius
Panaetius of Rhodes was a Stoic philosopher. He was a pupil of Diogenes of Babylon and Antipater of Tarsus in Athens, before moving to Rome where he did much to introduce Stoic doctrines to the city. After the death of Scipio in 129, he returned to the Stoic school in Athens, and was its last...

(109 BC), the Stoic school at Athens seems to have fragmented, and Dardanus was probably one of several leading Stoics teaching in this era.

Nothing else is known about his life, and he was presumably dead by the time Cicero was learning philosophy in Athens in 79 BC.
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