Stoic Six Pack 8 - The Peripatetics (Illustrated): Lyco of Troas, Aristotelian Proportion, Strato of Lampsacus, Life of Aristotle, Theophrastus and Post-Aristotle: The Stoics

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
- Aristotle.

Just as the Stoics were named for the stoa or porch in Athens where they congregated, the Peripatetic school - known in its day simply as the Peripatos - took its moniker from the peripatoi or covered walkways of the Lyceum where its members met. (A similar Greek word peripatetikos refers to the act of walking, and after Aristotle's death, a legend arose that he was a ‘peripatetic’ lecturer – that he walked about as he taught). The Peripatetic ...