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
This division, we are told by Diogenes, was made by Zeno of Citium, the founder of the Stoic sect, and by Chrysippus; but these philosophers placed the three divisions in the following order,—Logic, Physic, Ethic.
From Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus by Long, George
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