Zeno (b. 334 BCE), the founder of Stoicism, hailed from Citium (modern-day Larnaca) in Cyprus, and may have been of Phoenician origin. As a young man, Zeno set sail from Phoenicia with a cargo of ...

Stoicism is a Greco-Roman philosophy that began around 300 BCE with Zeno of Citium (modern-day Cyprus). Zeno was a merchant who lost all of his goods in a shipwreck and arrived in Athens with a ...

In between, Zeno and Marcus Aurelius —, - I like the Z to A- ness of it —- but in between, you have stoics who are politicians, generals, playwrights, and who are real people in the real world ...

Founded by the philosopher Zeno of Citium, the Stoic philosophy was founded around 300 BC in Athens, Greece. The four tenets of this philosophy are wisdom, courage, temperance and justice.

Stoicism is an ancient Greek and Roman philosophical tradition that continues to reverberate in contemporary culture. When Prince Philip died, for example, the Spectator wrote that “he ...

Zeno says: 'The sage will engage in public affairs unless he cannot.'" —Seneca, On Leisure 2.2 (Zeno of Citium was the founder of Stoic philosophy.) ...

But the Stoic philosophers, in their discourses on political and moral life, held that virtue, or ethical excellence, had no gender. Zeno of Citium envisaged an ideal community of sages that ...

The word stoic means a person who meets difficulties in life with patience and acceptance. It can also be used as a noun; a person who practices this philosophy is also called a stoic. This way of ...