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Zeno of Citium (/ ˈ z iː n oʊ /; Koinē Greek: Ζήνων ὁ Κιτιεύς, Zēnōn ho Kitieus; c. 334 – c. 262 BC) was a Hellenistic philosopher from Citium (Κίτιον, Kition), Cyprus. [3] He was the founder of the Stoic school of philosophy, which he taught in Athens from about 300 BC.
In Book 1 Chrysippus begins with the definitions of passion which had been laid down by Zeno. [39] Zeno had written his own work On Passions which had examined emotions based on common opinions held about them. [40] Zeno defined passion as "an irrational and unnatural motion of the soul" and "an excessive impulse". [41]
A bust of Zeno of Citium, considered the founder of Stoicism.. Stoicism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy that flourished in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. [1] The Stoics believed that the practice of virtue is enough to achieve eudaimonia: a well-lived life.
Zeno's greatest influence was within the thought of the Eleatic school, as his arguments built on the ideas of Parmenides, [22] though his paradoxes were also of interest to Ancient Greek mathematicians. [30] Zeno is regarded as the first philosopher who dealt with attestable accounts of mathematical infinity. [31]
262 BCE – Zeno of Citium founder of the Stoic philosophical school tripped and broke his toe and then died from holding his breath. 212 BCE – Archimedes was killed during the Siege of Syracuse by a Roman soldier despite orders that he should not be harmed.
Diogenes Laërtius recorded that when Zeno of Citium "consulted the oracle, as to what he ought to do to live in the most excellent manner, the God answered him that he ought to become of the same complexion as the dead, on which he inferred that he ought to apply himself to the reading of the books of the ancients.
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In ancient Greece, the concept of eternal return was most prominently associated with Empedocles and with Stoicism, the school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium. The Stoics believed that the universe is periodically destroyed and reborn, and that each universe is exactly the same as the one before.