The Most Famous
Philosophers from Cyprus
This page contains a list of the greatest Cypriots Philosophers. The pantheon dataset contains 1,267 Philosophers, 2 of which were born in Cyprus. This makes Cyprus the birth place of the 51st most number of Philosophers behind Saudi Arabia and Armenia.
Top 2 Philosophers
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Cypriots Philosophers of all time. This list of famous Cypriots Philosophers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
- #1
Zeno of Citium
334 BC - 263 BC
HPI 80.9469 langsZeno of Citium is most famous for his paradoxes. One of these paradoxes is that of Achilles and the tortoise. Achilles is running a race...Read moreShow less
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.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Cypriots philosophers born between 334 BC and 306 BC. Of these 2, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Cypriots philosophers include Zeno of Citium, and Persaeus.
