a
philosophy that flourished in ancient Greece and
Rome.
Stoics were people who maintained or affected the mental
attitude advocated by the
Stoics, a Greek
school of
philosophy, founded by
Zeno about 308 b.c.,
holding that human beings should be free from
passion and calmly accept all occurrences as the unavoidable result of divine will.
—SHSBC Binder 2 Approved Glossary