{i} Greek philosopher founder of the Stoic school (around 335-263 B.C.); Greek philosopher who devised paradoxes that supported the belief that motion and change are illusive (around 495-430 B.C.); Roman emperor of the East (474-491); family name
orig. Tarasicodissa born , Isauria, Diocese of the East died April 9, AD 491 Eastern Roman emperor (474-491). A military leader, he married the daughter of Emperor Leo I ( 466), and their son reigned briefly as Leo II (474). On the boy's early death, Zeno became emperor. Obliged to flee to Isauria to escape a coup d'état, he returned to Constantinople in 476. He made peace with the Vandals in Africa, put down a rebellion in Asia Minor (484), and persuaded the Ostrogoths to leave the Eastern Empire by making Theodoric king of Italy (489). Seeking to reconcile orthodox Christians and Monophysites, he caused a schism with Rome (484-519). paradoxes of Zeno Zeno of Citium Zeno of Elea