# Stilpo of Megara

- Id: `stilpo`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/stilpo/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `available`
- Content checksum: `b2d624dde993b85440bca60b851a9134681e33ba6cebc0eecddb3bd002cc2e6f`

## Summary

Megaric dialectician reconstructed from the complete trilingual Stilpo chapter of Diogenes Laertius, with every anecdote and reported saying kept carrier-qualified.

## Overview

Stilpo probably died around 280 BCE. His dialogues are lost and his life and positions survive through later carriers.

## Lifespan

```json
{
    "display": "c. 360–c. 280 BCE",
    "era": "Hellenistic and Roman era",
    "distance": "about 2,305 years ago",
    "age_at_death": null
}
```

## Intellectual tradition

```json
{
    "id": "greek-schools",
    "name": "Greek and Roman traditions",
    "detail": "Megaric representative",
    "labels": [
        "Greek and Roman traditions",
        "Megaric representative"
    ]
}
```

## Historical cutoff

```json
{
    "year": -270,
    "display": "270 BCE",
    "reason": "Stilpo probably died around 280 BCE. His dialogues are lost and his life and positions survive through later carriers."
}
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 1,
    "passages": 7,
    "languages": [
        "en",
        "fr",
        "grc"
    ],
    "intellectual_exposures": 2,
    "typed_relationships": 1
}
```

## Places

```json
[
    {
        "name": "Megara",
        "period": "4th-3rd century BCE",
        "description": "Secure center of his teaching tradition.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dialectical-school/"
    }
]
```