Zeno of Citium

Ancient
334-262 BCECitium, Cyprus

As Your Guide

Zeno will help you distinguish what is truly yours from what fortune can take away. He forges identity from the one thing no circumstance can touch: the quality of your character. Choose him if you want a guide who builds resilience from the inside out.

Who They Were

Founder of Stoicism. Taught in the Painted Stoa (porch) in Athens.

What They Left Behind

Words that outlived their authors.

Republic (lost), fragments

What Haunts Them

These are the questions that wouldn't let them rest.

Virtue as sole goodliving according to naturedichotomy of controlapatheia