Early Stoicism

Stoicism, more than anything else, is an attempt to discover the theories that will enable us all to be like socrates. When plato described the tripartite soul with its irrational parts in the timaeus timeus, his main speaker was a pythagorean. And posidonius reverted to that platonic doctrine. So it sounds like one thing that marks this period of stoicism, then, is a kind of syncratism,. Maybe even an aggressive move against other schools where you try to claim that all thei insights can kind of fit under the teaching of your own school.