id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5776 Gaius Musonius Rufus - Wikipedia .html text/html 2247 288 68 Gaius Musonius Rufus (/ˈruːfəs/; Greek: Μουσώνιος Ῥοῦφος) was a Roman Stoic philosopher of the 1st century AD. He followed Rubellius Plautus into exile when Plautus was banished by Nero (60 AD).[2] He returned to Rome after Plautus' death (62 AD), but as a consequence of his practising and teaching Stoicism, he became an object of suspicion and dislike at Nero's court, and was accordingly banished to the island of Gyaros (65 AD) on a trumped-up charge of participation in the Pisonian conspiracy.[3] While Gyaros was "harsh and devoid of human culture",[4] Musonius was able to survive and form a small community of philosophers.[5] He specifically refers to his time in exile in his ninth discourse, pointing out its advantages for a practitioner of Stoicism.[6] Chapter 1, page 1, of the works of Gaius Musonius Rufus, in Greek, edited by Otto Hense in the Teubner series, 1905. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5776.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5776.txt