Place

Citium

Cyprus · Modern Cyprus

A Phoenician-influenced city on Cyprus. Birthplace of Zeno, who would walk to Athens and found Stoicism in the painted porch of the Agora.

Thinkers Connected to Citium

Zeno of Citium

c. 334 BCE – c. 262 BCE

He lost everything in a shipwreck and found philosophy. Then he built Stoicism.

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