Stoic Series Finale: Xeno from Citium

Welcome to the final episode of our Stoic series, as we trace the lineage all the way back to Zeno, the founder of Stoicism.

Born in 334 BC, Zeno moved to Athens after being inspired by Socrates. The legend has it that he wanted to find a person similar to Socrates and was directed to Crates of the Cynic school. While influenced by Cynicism’s values of virtue and the pursuit of Eudaemonia, he developed his own school of thought after being shipwrecked and losing his merchandise on the way to Athens.

Let’s glean from the founder then, on the way of the Stoic, which translates to an unemotional endurance of pain.

No reading is necessary.