This article is about the Stoic philosopher. For the ancient painter, see Cleanthes (artist).
Cleanthes
Cleanthes, engraving from 1605
Born
c. 330 BC
Assos (now Ayvacık, Çanakkale, Turkey)
Died
c. 230 BC
Athens
Era
Hellenistic philosophy
Region
Western philosophy
School
Stoicism
Main interests
Physics, ethics
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Cleanthes (/kliˈænθiːz/; Greek: Κλεάνθης; c. 330 BC – c. 230 BC), of Assos, was a Greek Stoic philosopher and boxer who was the successor to Zeno of Citium as the second head (scholarch) of the Stoic school in Athens. Originally a boxer, he came to Athens where he took up philosophy, listening to Zeno's lectures. He supported himself by working as a water-carrier at night. After the death of Zeno, c. 262 BC, he became the head of the school, a post he held for the next 32 years. Cleanthes successfully preserved and developed Zeno's doctrines. He originated new ideas in Stoic physics, and developed Stoicism in accordance with the principles of materialism and pantheism. Among the fragments of Cleanthes' writings which have come down to us, the largest is a Hymn to Zeus. His pupil was Chrysippus who became one of the most important Stoic thinkers.
AD, mentions that a statue of Cleanthes was still visible at Assos, which had been erected by the Roman Senate. Cleanthes was an important figure in the...
Cleanthes in detail for his friend Hermippus. He serves as the narrator throughout the piece. At the end of the Dialogues he believes that Cleanthes offered...
a young man, where he became a pupil of the Stoic philosopher Cleanthes. When Cleanthes died, around 230 BC, Chrysippus became the third head of the Stoic...
Among Zeno's other pupils there were Aristo of Chios, Sphaerus, and Cleanthes who succeeded Zeno as the head (scholarch) of the Stoic school in Athens...
(Πρὸς Ἀρίσταρχον) as one of Cleanthes' works, and some scholars have suggested that this might have been where Cleanthes had accused Aristarchus of impiety...
Socrates. Zeno's most influential successor was Chrysippus, who followed Cleanthes as leader of the school, and was responsible for molding what is now called...
Apparent Face in the Orb of the Moon, in which Aristarchus jokes with Cleanthes, who is head of the Stoics, a sun worshipper, and opposed to heliocentrism...
philosophy begins with Zeno of Citium c. 300 BC, and was developed by Cleanthes (331–232 BC) and Chrysippus (c. 280 – c. 206 BC) into a formidable systematic...
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translation of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, Maxwell Staniforth writes: Cleanthes, wishing to give more explicit meaning to Zeno's 'creative fire', had...
was the Greek philosopher Aristotle. Assos is also the birthplace of Cleanthes, who later was to succeed Zeno of Citium as head of the Stoic school of...
were also part of early Stoicism, further developed by Zeno's successors Cleanthes and Chrysippus. Their metaphysics was based in materialism, which was...
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own philosophy into three parts: ethics, logic, and physics. The Stoic Cleanthes further divided philosophy into dialectics, rhetoric, ethics, politics...
Cleomenes, Theombrotus, and Crates' brother Pasicles. He may also have taught Cleanthes, Zeno's successor as head of the Stoic school. Crates was, apparently...
which offered inspiration to the Church was that of "divine Spirit". Cleanthes, wishing to give more explicit meaning to Zeno's "creative fire", had...
17:28. He alludes to passages from Epimenides and from either Aratus or Cleanthes. Paul then explained concepts such as the resurrection of the dead and...
philosophic pretensions: 'Suppose, Caesar, that you can attain to the wisdom of Cleanthes and Zeno, yet, against your will, not the philosopher's woolen cape'....
a painter from Corinth in ancient Greece, who, in conjunction with a "Cleanthes", ornamented the temple of Artemis Alpheionia at the mouth of the Alpheius...
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Aenesidemus Agrippa the Skeptic Sextus Empiricus more... Stoic Zeno of Citium Cleanthes Chrysippus Panaetius Posidonius Seneca Lucius Annaeus Cornutus Musonius...
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Wicked and wretched would I follow still. (Diogenes Laërtius quoting Cleanthes; quoted also by Seneca, Epistle 107.)" Whoe'er yields properly to Fate...
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Aenesidemus Agrippa the Skeptic Sextus Empiricus more... Stoic Zeno of Citium Cleanthes Chrysippus Panaetius Posidonius Seneca Lucius Annaeus Cornutus Musonius...
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