Zeno of Citium (334-262 BC).
Zeno of Citium (The Stoic) was a Hellenistic philosopher from Citium, Cyprus.
Zeno was the son of a merchant and a student of Crates of Thebes.
Zeno was, himself, a merchant until the age of 42, when he started a school.
According to a Legend on one trip Zeno was shipwrecked and he somehow ended up in Athens. He met philosophers there and he fell in love with philosophy. He soon began studying under the philosophers such as Crates, Stilpon, Xenocrates, and others.
When he asked a man working at a bookstore where men like Socrates could be found the man pointed at somebody walking down the street and said, “follow him”. It was Crates, Zeno’s first instructor. What we know of him mainly comes from later philosophers. It is known, however, that Zeno did not begin teaching on his own until late in life.
Named for his teaching platform, the Painted Porch (“stoa” is Greek for “porch”), his teachings were the beginning of Stoicism.
None of Zeno’s works have survived; he is believed to have taught that tranquility can best be reached via indifference to pleasure and pain.
Stoicism was the first philosophy in history to morally condemn slavery. Emancipation of slave makes their freedom of thought public, maybe also because Zeno was a slave for some time.
Stoicism was important as it was adopted by many important Romans (e.g. Cicero, Seneca, Josephus, Marc Aurel)
Table of Contents
- 1 Major Works of Zeno of Citium
- 2 Videos
- 3 Related Products
- 3.1 Early Greek Philosophy (Penguin Classics)
- 3.2 The Cynic Philosophers: From Diogenes to Julian (Penguin Classics)
- 3.3 Letters from a Stoic (Penguin Classics)
- 3.4 Essential Stoic Philosophy: All In One Stoicism
- 3.5 A Summary of Stoic Philosophy: Zeno of Citium in Diogenes Laertius Book Seven
- 3.6 The philiosophy of Zeno: Zeno of Citium and his legacy
- 3.7 Stoicism: 3 in 1: A Complete Guide to the Stoic Philosophy & the Stoic Way of Life
- 3.8 Enchiridion (Dover Thrift Editions)
- 3.9 Stoic Six Pack 9: The PreSocratics – Anaximander, The School of Miletus, Zeno, Parmenides, Pre-Socratic Philosophy and The Eleatics (Illustrated)
- 3.10 The Stoics (Illustrated)
Major Works of Zeno of Citium
– No works of Zeno of Citium survived.
Videos
Early Greek Philosophy (Penguin Classics)
- Penguin Classics
- Various (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 282 Pages - 11/26/2002 (Publication Date) - Penguin Classics (Publisher)
The Cynic Philosophers: From Diogenes to Julian (Penguin Classics)
- Various (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 232 Pages - 02/26/2013 (Publication Date) - Penguin Classics (Publisher)
Letters from a Stoic (Penguin Classics)
- Letters From A Stoic Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 254 Pages - 07/30/1969 (Publication Date) - Penguin Books (Publisher)
Essential Stoic Philosophy: All In One Stoicism
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Aurelius, Marcus (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 86 Pages - 01/07/2017 (Publication Date) - truepowerbooks (Publisher)
A Summary of Stoic Philosophy: Zeno of Citium in Diogenes Laertius Book Seven
- Seddon, Keith (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 172 Pages - 02/19/2008 (Publication Date) - Keith Seddon (Publisher)
The philiosophy of Zeno: Zeno of Citium and his legacy
- SCALTSAS, Theodore and MASON, Andrew S. (Editors.) (Author)
- 380 Pages - 01/31/2023 (Publication Date) - Municipality of Larnaca (Publisher)
Stoicism: 3 in 1: A Complete Guide to the Stoic Philosophy & the Stoic Way of Life
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Hudson, Garry (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 06/09/2018 (Publication Date) - Dibbly Publishing (Publisher)
Enchiridion (Dover Thrift Editions)
- Dover Publications
- Epictetus (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 64 Pages - 01/15/2004 (Publication Date) - Dover Publications (Publisher)
Stoic Six Pack 9: The PreSocratics – Anaximander, The School of Miletus, Zeno, Parmenides, Pre-Socratic Philosophy and The Eleatics (Illustrated)
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Cocker, Benjamin (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 184 Pages - 09/08/2016 (Publication Date)
The Stoics (Illustrated)
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Laërtius, Diogenes (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 60 Pages - 04/02/2015 (Publication Date)
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