PHILOSOPHER

Diogenes of Babylon

240 BC - 150 BC

Diogenes of Babylon

Diogenes of Babylon (also known as Diogenes of Seleucia; Greek: Διογένης Βαβυλώνιος; Latin: Diogenes Babylonius; c. 230 – c. 150/140 BC) was a Stoic philosopher. He was the head of the Stoic school in Athens, and he was one of three philosophers sent to Rome in 155 BC. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Diogenes of Babylon has received more than 73,989 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Diogenes of Babylon is the 540th most popular philosopher (up from 556th in 2019), the 132nd most popular biography from Iraq (up from 135th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Iraqi Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Diogenes of Babylon ranks 540 out of 1,089. Before him are Ibn al-Rawandi, Gorakhnath, Louis Couturat, Diogenes of Oenoanda, Hegesias of Cyrene, and Saul Kripke. After him are Manuel Chrysoloras, Dicaearchus, Metrodorus of Lampsacus, Anaxarchus, Hu Shih, and Bernardino Telesio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 240 BC, Diogenes of Babylon ranks 1. After him are Lucius Valerius Flaccus and Diocles. Among people deceased in 150 BC, Diogenes of Babylon ranks 3. Before him are Patanjali and Demetrius I Soter. After him is Seleucus of Seleucia.