What is Zeno known for creating?
Zeno of Elea Zeno of Elea Zeno of Elea (; ; ) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher of Magna Graecia and a member of the Eleatic School founded by Parmenides. Aristotle called him the inventor of the dialectic. He is best known for his paradoxes, which Bertrand Russell has described as "immeasurably subtle and profound". Little is known for certain about Zeno's life. Although written nearly a century after Zeno's death, the primary source of biographical information about Zeno is Plato's "Parmenides" and he is also mentioned in Aristotle's "Physics". In the dialogue of "Parmenides", Plato describes a visit to Athens by Zeno
Zeno of Tarsus 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. Zeno of Tarsus Zeno of Tarsus (, "Zenon ho Tarseus"; fl. 200 BC) was a Stoic philosopher and the son of Dioscorides. Zeno was a pupil of Chrysippus, and when Chrysippus died c. 206 BC, he succeeded him to become the fourth scholarch of the Stoic school in Athens. According to Diogenes Laërtius, he wrote very few books, but left a great number of disciples. From what little is known