person
Cleanthes of Assos
Cleanthes
also: Cleanthe, Cleanthes
Stoic philosopher (c. 330-230 BC), successor of Zeno of Citium as head of the Stoa and teacher of Chrysippus. Cicero (De Fato 14) notes that Chrysippus dissented from his teacher Cleanthes on the necessity of true statements about the past.
Reading notes
- On the Ends of Good and Evil §2.69 that picture which Cleanthes used to paint in words
Cleanthes of Assos (331-232 BC), the second head of the Stoa, here credited with a vivid verbal allegory of Pleasure enthroned and served by the Virtues as her handmaids. Cicero uses it to mock the Epicurean subordination of virtue to pleasure.
- On the Nature of the Gods §2.13 Our own Cleanthes, indeed
Cleanthes of Assos (c. 330-230 BC), second head of the Stoa after Zeno. Balbus reports his four causes for the origin of belief in gods: prophecy, benefits of nature, terror at natural disasters, and the order of the heavens.
- Tusculan Disputations §2.60 his fellow pupil Cleanthes
Cleanthes of Assos, Zeno's successor as head of the Stoa, who grieved at Dionysius's defection. The verse he quotes from the Epigoni rebukes the absent Zeno as if dead, lamenting his pupil's degeneration.
- Tusculan Disputations §3.76 as Cleanthes holds
Cleanthes of Assos (c. 330-230 BC), Zeno's successor as head of the Stoa, who held that the consoler's one task is to show the supposed evil is no evil at all. Cicero objects that this only fits the wise man, who needs no consolation.