Ancient · c. 334–262 BC
Who influenced Zeno of Citium?
Influences and legacy
Founder of Stoicism: virtue alone is good, and wisdom means living according to nature.
Zeno of Citium was influenced by Diogenes of Sinope and Crates of Thebes, and went on to influence Cleanthes, Chrysippus, Panaetius, Cicero, Seneca and Epictetus. That is 8 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Zeno of Citium?
Zeno of Citium, from Cyprus, founded the Stoic school and taught it in Athens from about 300 BC.
Building on the moral ideas of the Cynics, Stoicism taught that goodness and peace of mind come from a life of virtue lived in accordance with nature. It became one of the major schools of the Hellenistic and Roman world and returned in the Renaissance as Neostoicism and today as Modern Stoicism.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Zeno of Citium?
2 direct influences on this map, earliest first.
- Diogenes of Sinope c. 404–323 BC
- Crates of Thebes c. 365–285 BC
Who did Zeno of Citium influence?
6 thinkers on this map draw directly on Zeno of Citium.
The line of teachers behind Zeno of Citium
The longest documented line of influence ending at Zeno of Citium runs 7 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
Two steps away from Zeno of Citium
Indirect influences
- Through Diogenes of Sinope: Socrates, Antisthenes
The second generation
- Through Cicero: Niccolò Machiavelli, Michel de Montaigne, Hugo Grotius
- Through Epictetus: Marcus Aurelius, Blaise Pascal
- Through Panaetius: Posidonius
- Through Seneca: Tertullian
Contemporaries of Zeno of Citium
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Zeno of Citium, with no direct line between them.
- Epicurus 341–270 BC
- Timon of Phlius c. 320–230 BC
- Hipparchia c. 350–280 BC
- Xunzi c. 310–235 BC
Zeno of Citium by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 2
- Direct followers
- 6 — #15 of 279 on this map
- Thinkers upstream
- 9
- Thinkers downstream
- 163
- Wikipedia languages
- 68 — #32 of 54 among ancient philosophers
- Card rarity
- Epic
Schools and lineages
- Stoics: Zeno of Citium, Seneca, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius
Questions about Zeno of Citium
- Who influenced Zeno of Citium?
- Diogenes of Sinope and Crates of Thebes.
- Who did Zeno of Citium influence?
- Cleanthes, Chrysippus, Panaetius, Cicero, Seneca and Epictetus.
- When did Zeno of Citium live?
- c. 334–262 BC. The map files Zeno of Citium under the ancient world.
- How rare is the Zeno of Citium card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Zeno of Citium in 68 languages, which makes it an Epic card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
More ancient philosophers
- Confucius 551–479 BC
- Aristotle 384–322 BC
- Plato c. 428–348 BC
- Socrates c. 470–399 BC
- Pythagoras c. 570–495 BC
- Laozi c. 6th c. BC
- Cicero 106–43 BC
- Thales of Miletus c. 624–546 BC