Zeno of Tarsus

Zeno of Tarsus, the successor of Chrysippus, leader of the Stoic school. He expressed himself doubtfully about the doctrine of the conflagration of the world.—Zeno of Sidon, an Epicurean philosopher, pupil and successor of Apollodorus, taught with great success at Athens down to 78 B.C., and is warmly praised by Diogenes Laertius and Cicero. His fellow disciple and successor Phaedrus was heard by Cicero at Rome as early as 90 B.C.