Zeno of Citium

Zeno of Citium

Zeno of Citium (; Koinē Greek: Ζήνων ὁ Κιτιεύς, Zēnōn ho Kitieus; c. 334 – c. 262 BC) was a Hellenistic philosopher from Citium (Κίτιον, Kition), Cyprus. He was the founder of the Stoic school of philosophy, which he taught in Athens from about 300 BC. Based on the moral ideas of the Cynics, Stoicism laid great emphasis on goodness and peace of mind gained from living a life of virtue in accordance with nature. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Zeno of Citium is the 67th most popular philosopher (up from 71st in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Cyprus (down from 1st in 2019) and the most popular Cypriot Philosopher.

Zeno of Citium is most famous for his paradoxes. One of these paradoxes is that of Achilles and the tortoise. Achilles is running a race with the tortoise, but the tortoise is given a head start. Zeno's paradox is that Achilles can never catch up to the tortoise because in order to do so, he must first reach the point where the tortoise was when he started running.