Zeno of
Tarsus ( grc-gre,
Ζήνων ὁ Ταρσεύς, ''Zenon ho Tarseus''; fl. 200 BC) was a
Stoic
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philosopher and the son of
Dioscorides
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Biography
Zeno was a pupil of
Chrysippus,
and when Chrysippus died c. 206 BC, he succeeded him to become the fourth
scholarch
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of the Stoic school in
Athens
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[Eusebius]
''Praeparatio Evangelica,''
15. 18.
According to
Diogenes Laërtius, he wrote very few books, but left a great number of disciples.
According to the testimony of
Philodemus, Zeno rebutted the opinions of the
Peripatetic
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There are several ...
philosopher
Hieronymus of Rhodes in "five books Against Hieronymus" (Philodemus, ''Sto. hist.'', col. 48, fr. 18).
Little is known about Zeno's philosophical views. He was apparently an orthodox Stoic, but doubted the doctrine of the
conflagration of the universe.
This was a considerable modification of the physical theory of the Stoics, who held that the universe periodically dissolved into fire.
It is not known when he died. He was succeeded as head of the Stoic school by
Diogenes of Babylon
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