PHILOSOPHER

Zeno of Citium

334 BC - 263 BC

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Zeno of Citium has received more than 1,717,240 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). Zeno of Citium is the 71st most popular philosopher (up from 91st in 2019), the most popular biography from Cyprus 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.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Zeno of Citium ranks 71 out of 1,267. Before him are Edmund Husserl, Al-Kindi, Antonio Gramsci, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Ludwig Feuerbach, and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling. After him are Karl Jaspers, Rudolf Steiner, George Berkeley, Ramakrishna, Jürgen Habermas, and Xenophanes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 334 BC, Zeno of Citium ranks 1.  Among people deceased in 263 BC, Zeno of Citium ranks 1. After him is Philetaerus.

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In Cyprus

Among people born in Cyprus, Zeno of Citium ranks 1 out of 77. After him are Ptolemy XII Auletes (-117), Theodora (500), Makarios III (1913), Nicos Anastasiades (1946), John the Merciful (550), Rauf Denktaş (1924), Tassos Papadopoulos (1934), Alparslan Türkeş (1917), Michael Cacoyannis (1922), Henry II of Jerusalem (1271), and Henry I of Cyprus (1217).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Cyprus

Among philosophers born in Cyprus, Zeno of Citium ranks 1. After him are Persaeus (-306).

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