id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9520 Chrysippus - Wikipedia .html text/html 7059 818 71 Of Phoenician descent,[7] Chrysippus, the son of Apollonius of Tarsus, was born at Soli, Cilicia.[8] He was slight in stature,[9] and is reputed to have trained as a long-distance runner.[10] While still young, he lost his substantial inherited property when it was confiscated to the king's treasury.[11] Chrysippus moved to Athens, where he became the disciple of Cleanthes, who was then the head (scholarch) of the Stoic school.[12] He is believed to have attended the courses of Arcesilaus and his successor Lacydes, in the Platonic Academy.[13] He took the doctrines of Zeno and Cleanthes and crystallized them into what became the definitive system of Stoicism.[21] He elaborated the physical doctrines of the Stoics and their theory of knowledge[17] and he created much of their formal logic.[22] In short, Chrysippus made the Stoic system what it was. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9520.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9520.txt