> Stoicism was a mentality created by an emperor No it wasn't. Stoicism was centuries old by the time of Aurelius. "Stoicism originated as a Hellenistic phil

> Stoicism was a mentality created by an emperor No it wasn't. Stoicism was centuries old by the time of Aurelius. "Stoicism originated as a Hellenistic philosophy, founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium (modern day Cyprus), c. 300 B.C.E. It was influenced by Socrates and the Cynics, " https://iep.utm.edu/stoicism/ https://iep.utm.edu/stoicism/