In this and in a couple of future articles, we shall consider the cultural rivals of Christianity. In the early days, the Christian faith went from being a small sect of Judaism to eventually becoming ...

Source: Wikimedia commons, public domain. Zeno (b. 334 BCE), the founder of Stoicism, hailed from Citium (modern-day Larnaca) in Cyprus, and may have been of Phoenician origin. As a young man, Zeno ...

In ancient Greece, purple dye was as expensive as silver. The color purple was used only in the garments of emperors or high nobles. Zeno, a philosopher from Citium, was a merchant who dealt in this ...