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  Citium
Kition, or (in Latin) Citium (today Larnaca, or Larnaka) was a city on the southeast coast of Cyprus.
The biblical name Kittim, though derived from Citium, was in fact used quite generally for Cyprus as a whole, and occasionally by the Hebrews for the Greeks and Romans.
During the Ionian Greek revolts of the 4th century BC Citium led the side that was loyal to Persia and was besieged by an Athenian force in 449 BC.
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  Larnaca - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The discovery here of an official monument of Sargon II suggests that Citium was the administrative center of Cyprus during the Assyrian protectorate (709–668 BC).
During the Ionian Greek revolts of the 4th century BC, Citium led the side that was loyal to Persia and was besieged by an Athenian force in 449 BC.
A famous Athenian general, Kimon, died at sea defending the city of Citium in a major battle with the Persians of Xerxes.
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 CITIUM - LoveToKnow Article on CITIUM
That this was still a recent settlement in the 7th century is suggested by an allusion in a list of the allies of Assur-bani-pal of Assyria in 668 s.c.
The biblical name Kittim, derived from Citium, is in fact used quite generally for Cyprus as a whole;3 later also for Greeks and Romans in general.4 The discovery here of an.
and 352 B.C., Citium led the side loyal to Persia and was besieged by, an Athenian force in 449 B.C.; its extensive necropolis proves that it remained a considerable city even after the Greek cause triumphed with Alexander.
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 Phoenician Zeno of Citium   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Zeno was born in 333 B.C. in Citium, a principal Phoenician city in Cyprus, situated on the southeast coast near modern Larnaca.
A Phoenician dedication to the god "Baal of Lebanon," found at Citium, suggests that the city may have belonged to Tyre.
Citium suffered repeatedly from earthquakes, however, and in medieval times its harbour became silted and the population moved to Larnaca.
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 Citium - Coupon Software
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 Larnaca - TheBestLinks.com - Larnaka, City, Cyprus, Latin, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The discovery here of an official monument of Sargon II suggests that Citium was the administrative center of Cyprus during the Assyrian protectorate (709 - 668 BCE).
During the Ionian Greek revolts of the 4th century BCE Citium led the side that was loyal to Persia and was besieged by an Athenian force in 449 BC.
Zeno of Citium died at sea defending the city of Citium.
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 Citium --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The earliest remains at Citium are those of an Aegean colony of the Mycenaean Age (c.
A Phoenician dedication to the god “Baal of Lebanon,” found at Citium, suggests that the city may...
Eventually dominated by the Phoenician city of Citium, it became the centre of a cult of Aphrodite and of the Greco-Phoenician deity Resheph-Apollo.
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 Phoenician Zeno of Citium
Zeno was born in 333 B.C. in Citium, a principal Phoenician city in Cyprus, situated on the southeast coast near modern Larnaca.
A Phoenician dedication to the god "Baal of Lebanon," found at Citium, suggests that the city may have belonged to Tyre.
Citium suffered repeatedly from earthquakes, however, and in medieval times its harbour became silted and the population moved to Larnaca.
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 Zeno of Citium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Note: Zeno of Citium should not be confused with Zeno of Elea.
Zeno of Citium (The Stoic) (333 BC-264 BC) was a Hellenistic philosopher from Citium, Cyprus.
Zeno of Citium in Sensible Marks of Ideas
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 Cyprus | North Cypurs | General Info | Cities | Larnaca | Tourist Attractions
The earliest remains go back to the Mycenean age (ca 1400-1100 BCE) and seem to mark an Aegean colony, but in historic times Citium was the chief centre of Phoenician influence in Cyprus.
That this was still a recent settlement in the 7th century is suggested by an allusion in a list of the allies of Assurbanipal of Assyria in 668 BCE to a King Damusu (Damasos) of Karti-hadasti (Phoenician "new city"), where Citium would be expected.
The discovery here of an official monument of Sargon II suggests that Citium was the administrative centre of Cyprus during the Assyrian protectorate (709 - 668 BCE).
www.cyprus.com /cyprus-general-info-cities-larnaca.php   (678 words)

  
 Citium - Wireless Enabling Technologies
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 STOICS - LoveToKnow Article on STOICS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
by Zeno of Citium, and so called from the Stoa or painted, corridor (oroand iroucLX~) on the north side of the market-place at Athens, which, after its restoration by Cimon, the celebrated painter Polygnotus had adorned with frescoes representing scenes from the Trojan War.
Such lands as Cyprus, Cilicia and Syria, such cities as Citium, Soli, Hcraclea in Pontus, Sidon,~ Carthage, Seleucia on the Tigris, Apamea by the Orontes, furnished the school with its scholars and presidents; Tarsus, Rhodes and Alexandria became famous as its university towns.
Properly therefore it stands in marked antithesis to that fairest growth of old Hellas, the Academy, which saw the Stoa rise and fallthe one the typical school of Greece and Greek intellect, the other of the Hellenized East, and, under the early Roman Empire, of the whole civilized world.
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 Devlin's Angle: Soft Mathematics
The better known Zeno, of Zeno's paradoxes, was Zeno of Elea, in Magna Graecia, who lived about 450 B.C. That Zeno was a student of Parmenides, the founder of the Eleatic school of philosophy.
What Zeno of Citium actually did was found the Stoic school of logic.
Though modern mathematical logic is popularly credited as having its beginnings in the syllogistic logic of Aristotle, most of the fundamental notions of contemporary propositional logic began not with Aristotle but with Zeno and the Stoics.
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 PR Newswire: Citium Signs Marketing Partnership Agreement Providing Citium's Promotions Engine to WebRadio.com ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Citium Signs Marketing Partnership Agreement Providing Citium's Promotions Engine to WebRadio.com Broadcast Affiliates.
Citium Inc., an industry leader in promotions based revenue generating infrastructure technologies, has signed a major marketing partnership with streaming solutions provider WebRadio.com.
WebRadio.com will now add Citium's Promotions Engine to the highly selective list of value added services it offers to over 200 major broadcast affiliates.
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 CITIUM (Gr. Kition) - Online Information article about CITIUM (Gr. Kition)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
LEBANON (from Semitic laban, " to be white," or " whitish," probably referring not to snow, but to the bare white walls ofchalk or limestone which form the characteristic feature of the whole range)
The biblical name Kittim, derived from Citium, is in fact used quite generally for Cyprus as a whole; 3 later also for Greeks and See also:
suggests that Citium was the administrative centre of Cyprus during the See also:
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Zeno of Citium (333-264 BC): Born in Citium, Cyprus (then a Greek colony).
He was the son of a merchant and a merchant himself until the age of 42, when he started a philosophical school.
Organized at Athens in the third century B.C.E. (310 BC) by Zeno of Citium (above) and Chrysippus.
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 What does archaeology tell us about Paul's travels through Cyprus (Acts 13:4-12)? - ChristianAnswers.Net
The second headed for Citium on the south coast, then westwards to Amathus, Curium and then Paphos.
Of the other cities Citium managed to retain elements of its earlier Phoenician past (Mitford 1980: 1318-20).
Tremithus is a further possibility depending on the route from Salamis to Citium.
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 Larnaca   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The major international airport of Cyprus is located in this city.
The earliest remains go back to the Mycenean age (ca 1400-1100 BC) and seem to mark an Aegean colony, but in historic times Citium was the chief center of Phoenician influence in Cyprus.
The discovery here of an official monument of Sargon II suggests that Citium was the administrative center of Cyprus during the Assyrian protectorate (709 - 668 BC).
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/L/Larnaca.htm   (507 words)

  
 Bryn Mawr Classical Review 1999.11.13
Through analyses of texts by Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Zeno of Citium, and Cicero, Schofield presents different views of how a political community may be saved from stasis.
Schofield then looks at texts of Plato, Aristotle, and Zeno of Citium to examine their views of the bonds that hold a society together, questioning whether a society is best cemented by virtue, economic reciprocity, equality, or hierarchy.
Plato's use of economic structures in the Republic is the subject of one chapter, while another is given to a comparison of Plato and Zeno of Citium on utopianism.
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 Zeno of Citium Biography / Biography of Zeno of Citium Biography
The Greek philosopher Zeno of Citium (335-263 BC) was the founder of Stoicism.
Zeno the son of Mnaseas, was born in the Cypriot town of Citium and may have been part Semitic.
Each Biography is written by a biographical expert or professional educator and is a complete resource on the individual.
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 Ancient coinage of Cyprus
42) enumerates nine kingdoms in the island—(1) Salamis, (2) Citium with Idalium and Tamassus, (3) Marium, (4) Amathus, (5) Curium, (6) Paphos, (7) Soli, (8) Lapethus, and (9) Ceryneia.
A frequent symbol on the early coinage is the ankh or crux ansata.
B.C. Demonicus, son of Hipponicus, the Athenian, probably reigned at Citium for a short time, interrupting the reign of Melekiathon.
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 The Stoics
Zeno of Citium taught here which led to his philosophy being called "Stoicism" (literally, "porch-ism").
Zeno was born in the small town of Citium on the island of Cyprus.
As a young man he moved to Athens, where, it is said, he discovered philosophy by reading Xenophon's description of Socrates, the Memorabilia.
www.whitworth.edu /Academic/Department/Core/Classes/CO250/Greece/Data/d_stoic.htm   (517 words)

  
 Zeno   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Zeno of Citium (336-264): philosopher from Cyprus, founder of the philosophiocal school that is known as Stoicism or the Stoa.
After the conquests of Alexander the Great, the world was larger than ever, and the city-state had ceased to be an important political unit.
Like Diogenes of Sinope and Epicurus, Zeno of Citium ignored traditional values like prestige and honor, and focused on man's inner peace.
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 Stoicism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Stoicism is a school of philosophy and spirituality founded (308 BC) in Athens by Zeno of Citium (Cyprus).
He is said to have lived in a clay tub, eaten raw meat and masturbated in public to demonstrate his independence.
He taught in the famous stoa poikile (the painted porch) from which his philosophy got its name.
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Stoicism is a school of 1 philosophy commonly associated 5 with such Greek philosophers 5 as Zeno of 2 Citium, Cleanthes, or 9 Chrysippus and with 3 such later Romans 9 as Cicero, Seneca, 7 Marcus Aurelius, and 0 Epictetus.
Organized at Athens 6 in the third 9 century B.C.E. BC) by Zeno of 3 Citium and Chrysippus, the 3 Stoics provided a 1 unified account of 4 the world that 0 comprised formal logic, 1 materialistic physics, and naturalistic 6 ethics.
Later Roman Stoics emphasized more 2 exclusively the development of 9 recommendations for living in 5 harmony with a natural 5 world over which one 0 has no direct control.
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His officers kept the news of his death secret.
A statue of Zeno of Citium stands proudly on the sea front promenade of modern Larnaca.
Like other cities of Cyprus, it has suffered repeatedly from earthquakes, and in medieval times when its harbour silted up (a sign that the island was deforested and overgrazed) the population moved to Larnaca, on the open seafront farther south.
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 Zeno of Citium (333 BC-264 BC) : Library of Congress Citations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Zeno of Citium (333 BC-264 BC) : Library of Congress Citations
Heading: Zeno, the Stoic References: Zenon, the Stoic Zenon, von Kition nna Zeno, of Citium Zeno, the Phoenician Notes: Hovhannisyan, H.A. Zenoni Imastasiri Haghags bnut°ean...
Amer., c1975 (Zeno of Citium, Greek philosopher, b.
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 MySpot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
School of philosophy organized at Athens in the third century B.C.E. by Zeno of Citium and Chrysippus.
The mind in itself wants nothing, unless it creates a want for itself; therefore it is both free from perturbation and unimpeded, if it does not perturb and impede itself
Zeno of Citium (336-224 BC): Born in Citium, Cypress (a then Greek colony).
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 AllRefer.com - Zeno of Citium (Philosophy, Biography) - Encyclopedia
He left Cyprus and went to Athens, where he studied under the Cynics, whose teachings left an important impression on his own thought.
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