Gaius Musonius Rufus (c. 30 CE - c. 101 CE) was an influential 1st-century CE Stoic philosopher. While in modern times he is best known for being the teacher of Epictetus (c. 50 CE - c. 130 CE), Rufus was a highly respected figure in ancient times, considered by Origen a 'Roman Socrates' and by Tacitus as the foremost Stoic of his day. His life was an example of Stoic apathetic resistance to corrupt leadership and to the vicissitudes of time.
By the time of Musonius, Stoicism was already a 300-year-old philosophy school imported to Rome from Athens a hundred years earlier and popularized in Rome by philosophers like Panaetius and politicians like Cicero. Rufus is considered a pioneer of the Late Stoa, epitomized later by Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius.



Sorry about the female reading but there is No AudioBook of Rufus (Text-to-voice aside) and the man i paid to do this hand balled it to his wife..

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