 The late 16th and early 17th centuries saw efforts to form a systematic synthesis of Christianity and Stoicism. The most important figure in the Neo-Stoic movement was  Justus Lipsius  (1547–1606). Lipsius has his own separate entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia, so I will not discuss him further. See also Cooper (2004). The influence of the Hellenistic schools generally on early modern philosophy is the theme of the essays collected in Miller and Inwood (2003). See also Osler (1991) and Strange &amp; Zubek (2004).