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Headword:
Zênôn
Adler number: zeta,78
Translated headword: Zeno, Zenon
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Son of Mousaios; from Sidon;[1] a Stoic philosopher, student of Diodoros who was called Kronos.[2] He was himself a teacher of
Zeno from
Kition.[3] He wrote a
Defence-speech for Socrates[4] and
Sidonian Matters.
Zênôn, Mousaiou, Sidônios, philosophos Stôïkos, mathêtês Diodôrou tou klêthentos Kronou, didaskalos de kai autos Zênônos tou Kitieôs. egrapsen Apologian huper Sôkratous kai Sidôniaka.
Notes:
[1] In Phoenicia (present-day
Lebanon). For this
Zeno see OCD(4) p.1588, under
Zeno(5).
[2] No Suda entry, but see OCD(4) p.455, under
Diodorus(2) Cronus of
Iasos.
[3]
zeta 79. The claim is chronologically impossible, prima facie, as
Zeno of Sidon (Epicurean, not Stoic) lived c.150-70 BCE; see web address 1. The solution has been to distinguish between two men of this name, an earlier Stoic and a later Epicurean: see OCD(4) p.1588, under
Zeno(5) and
Zeno(6).
[4]
sigma 829.
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; chronology; geography; historiography; philosophy
Translated by: Ross Scaife ✝ on 26 November 2002@18:55:01.
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