Theater of Fate

All those to whom Zeno’s doctrines were pleasing held this opinion: Posidonius in the second book on Fate, Chrysippus in his books on Fate, and Zeno, and also Boëthus in the eleventh book on Fate, says Laërtius Laërtius, book 7, in the life of Zeno, page 459, from the Meibomius edition.. From this it is clear that our Zeno wrote on Fate, even if the same author, when he initiates the count of his other writings, does not mention it by a word—which could have indeed slipped from a mind too occupied, or it is a flaw of the scribes. Furthermore, as we have said, Chrysippus follows the footsteps of his teacher.

CHRYSIPPUS,

son of Apollonius, a Solensian or Tarsensian, an eminent philosopher of talent and erudition, who, when he had embraced all parts of the sciences in seven hundred volumes, as we read, dealt with Fate in several books as well. In these, when he had confirmed implacable Fate with many arguments, but especially from divination and oracles, Diogenianus the Peripatetic rose up against him and refuted his opinion, as he explains more broadly and not without care.