Cyprus · c. 9th c. BCE
Kition
Kiti
Copper gate
The island of copper, held by Tyre as a workshop and a shrine. Zeno of Citium — called the Phoenician by his own contemporaries — founded the Stoic school from this harbor.
The sea that reached Kition
Byblos coast looking west · the same water that made Cyprus a Tyrian workshop
Kition — copper door of Tyre (photograph: Levantine shore)
Wikimedia Commons · Byblos coast
Gad Yaton: Zeno came from that harbor. The letters were already there.
Copper and letters
From Kition the ships turned west. The same letters. The same weights. Melqart in the temple. Copper in the hull. The photograph is the Levantine sea looking west — the water that made Cyprus a Tyrian workshop. Honest: the shore in the picture is Byblos. The road is the same road.
Zeno left this harbor and taught in Athens. They called him the Phoenician. The school is remembered. The harbor is not.
Gad Yaton: a Phoenician city among Greeks, speaking both, forgetting neither.