Zeno of Citium

American  

[sish-ee-uhm] / ˈsɪʃ i əm /

noun

1. c340–c265 b.c., Greek philosopher, born in Cyprus.

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Zeno of Citium British  

/ ˈziːnəʊ əv ˈsɪtɪəm /

noun

1. ?336–?264 _bc , Greek philosopher, who founded the Stoic school in Athens

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Example Sentences

A little over two thousand years before "Never Mind the Bollocks," around 300 BCE, a guy named Zeno of Citium founded the Stoic school of philosophy.

From Salon • Jan. 30, 2024

Founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium around 300 B.C.,

From National Geographic • Nov. 16, 2023

Diogenes Laertius devotes one of his longest chapters to Zeno of Citium, whose subsequent disciples, including Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius and Seneca, are central to Ward Farnsworth’s “The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User’s Manual.”

From Washington Post • Jun. 6, 2018

When he came of age, he moved to Athens and heard the philosopher Ariston of Chios, who was a student of Zeno of Citium, a key figure in the history of the Stoic school.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

Z. Zeno of Citium, the founder of the Stoical School, 446; a Spiritualistic Pantheist, 450, 451.

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)