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So we've covered quite a bit of ground on the Hellenistic Age so far, and I kind of want

to tie it together a little bit.

There were four main schools of philosophy in the Hellenistic Age, the Epicurians, the

Stoics, the Skeptics, and the Synics.

All these schools trying to cope with all the problems for the average citizen in the Hellenistic

Age that were seemingly impossible to deal with.

The goal of all these schools was to achieve this freedom from disturbance.

Sometimes described as adoraxia, sometimes described as just a tranquil state of mind.

But although the end goal of all these schools was the same, if you looked at a member from

each one of them on the streets, they would look completely different from each other,

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