Zeno of Citium
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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
Stoicism soon appeared as the antagonist of Epicureanism, and Epicurus found in Zeno of Citium a rival.
From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by Draper, John William
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