The key objective of the Zeno Stoic Centre is to establish a home at the ancient site of Citium, present-day Larnaca, where its founder Zeno, first set sail to Athen (sometime in 300 BC) to establish his now world-famous Stoic Philosophy, which currently attracts millions of followers worldwide, as a truly Cosmopolitan philosophy, a way of life. You could say, it’s a way of bringing Zeno home! Though predominantly Greek, the population of present-day Cyprus and in particular Larnaca, which includes a constant stream of millions of tourists from all over the world that visit the island every year, is still very much a mixing pot of many different cultural, religious and ethnic groups. One that reflects the island’s continuing eclectic cosmopolitanism, and which defies any easy and simple categorization along religious or ethnic lines. It is befitting then that Zeno, the architect and founder of the first cosmopolitan philosophy, should be a native son of Larnaca, the site of ancient Citium or Kition, Zeno’s birthplace.