Dardanus of Athens

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Dardanus of Athens was a Stoic philosopher who lived about 160–85 BCE. He studied with Diogenes of Babylon and Antipater of Tarsus. Cicero named him a leader of the Stoic school in Athens, along with Mnesarchus, at a time when Antiochus of Ascalon was turning away from scepticism (around 95 BCE). After the death of Panaetius in 109 BCE, the Athens Stoic school broke apart, and Dardanus was probably one of several top teachers. We know little about his life, and he was likely dead by 79 BCE when Cicero went to Athens to study philosophy.