Quiz: Zeno of Citium

When was Zeno of Citium born?

• About 334 BC, Citium, Cyprus.
• About 372 BC, in the state of Zou, China.
• 106 BC, Arpinum, Italy.
• About 50, Hierapolis, in what is now Turkey, enslaved in Rome.

When did Zeno of Citium die?

• About 262 BC, Athens.
• 233 BC, in prison in the state of Qin.
• 43 BC, murdered on the orders of Mark Antony after being proscribed.
• About 370 BC.

What is Zeno of Citium known for?

• Founding Stoicism: live according to nature, want only what is in your control, treat virtue as the sole good.
• The doctrine that human nature tends to good as water tends downhill, and that a ruler who starves his people loses the mandate to rule.
• Impartial care, the condemnation of aggressive war, frugality in ritual, and early work on logic and optics.
• The doctrine of the One, from which Intellect and Soul overflow, and the soul's return by contemplation.

Which school of thought was Zeno of Citium part of?

• Stoicism, named for the Stoa Poikile where he taught.
• Eleatic school, the strict logic of being.
• Daoism, its skeptical and literary wing.
• Neoplatonism, built from Plato with Stoic and Aristotelian parts.

True or false: Phoenician Greek from Citium in Cyprus who founded Stoicism, teaching in the Painted Stoa at Athens.

• True
• False