Zeno of Citium
Zeno (342-270 BCE), Greek philosopher.
Zeno first came under the influence of the Cynics when he arrived
in Athens around 313 BCE. He later founded the philosophical
school of Stoics (from stoa, doorway or porch, a point of
congregation) around the year 308 BCE. He taught the calm and
rational acceptance of all occurences as manifestations of the
gods' will. He taught a particularly stringent ethics: one
either lives up to the standard of the Stoic sage, and is
therefore good, or one entirely lacks virtue.
