Who was the first Stoic Philosopher? Was it Zeno of Citium as Wikipedia says?
Stoicism was school of philosophy founded by the Geek philosopher Zeno of Cytium in Cyprus around 300 B.C.. The first Stoics were so called because they gathered in the “Stoa Poecile” in Athens to hear their master Zeno lecture. Zeno had studied with Crates the Cynic, and his own teaching included the Cynical adaptation of Socrates’ ideals of virtue, endurance, and self-sufficiency added to the explanation of the physical universe given by Heraclitus, and a bit of the logic of Aristotle. The main player in making Stoicsm a major philosophy was Chrysippus, one of Zeno’s followers. Following Chrysippus was Panaetius of Rhodes, who in the Second Century B.C. introduced Stoicism to the Romans. The Romans, who received Stoicism more cordially than they did any other Greek philosophy, can claim the third period of Stoicism as their own, owing to the Romans philosophers Seneca, Epictetus, and the emperor Marcus Aurelius. Stoicism, with its acknowldged roots in earlier doctrines and theories o
