Who founded Stoicism?

Posted by Evolved Inspired on Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Who founded Stoicism, a philosophy that along with Buddhism provides much common sense in today’s world?

Founding a philosophy is no mean feat. Zeno of Citium is regarded as the founder of Stoicism. Zeno was born in Crete around 300 BC and found his way to Athens by way of being shipwrecked, losing all his possessions in the process. Stoicism was founded in Athens, Greece, and derives its name from the word Stoa, a public covered walkway or porch where early Stoics would meet. Stoa Poikile (The painted porch) is regarded as the place where Stoicism was born.

Sadly Zeno’s writings have not survived, so our understanding of Stoicism comes not from its founder, but from his student’s notes and further writings.

Zeno of Citium both studied with other teachers such as Crates of Thebes and Xenocrates. Stoicisms founding philosophy is broken into three parts, Logic, Physics (including the ‘nature of things’ or Logos) and Ethics.

Quotes attributed to Zeno include?