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Stoicism was founded around 300 BC by Zeno of Kition — Citium, on the south coast of Cyprus, under what is now Larnaca — a merchant of probable Phoenician descent whom ancient sources routinely call "the Phoenician". He was shipwrecked near…

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Zeno was born in Kition around 334 BC and died around 262 BC. Kition was a Cypriot city with a long Phoenician presence and a Phoenician-descended population; Diogenes Laertius and later writers call Zeno ho Phoinix, "the Phoenician", somet…

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