Cleanthes
quoted 16 times by 8 works · as a person
also in the atlas: Cleanthes the figure
Most often carried — quoted as a source. The locus given for each is the passage in the quoting book; the harvest records no place inside what is quoted, and nothing here pretends to.
4 reported · 12 carried
4 neutral 3 refuted 3 extended 4 endorsedin the voice of Seneca 3 , Cotta 2 , Cleanthes 1 , the speaker (Cicero) 1
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in the voice of Cotta
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On the Nature of the Gods Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 neutral 2 refuted 1 extended 1 endorsed 5 citations · 8 passages
The passage explicitly reports Cleanthes's several identifications of god from his writings, including his books against Pleasure.
Cleanthes, again, who studied under Zeno together with the one I just named, at one time says the world itself is a god, at another gives this name to the mind and soul of the whole of nature, at another judges that the uttermost and highest heat, poured round about on every side, embracing and enclosing all things on the outside, which is called ether, is most surely a god;
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in the voice of Seneca
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Letters to Lucilius Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 2 neutral 3 citations
Direct attribution of a specific philosophical claim to Cleanthes by name.
Cleanthes says it is breath sent from the governing part down to the feet, Chrysippus says it is the governing part itself.
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Stromata Clement of Alexandria 1 extended 1 endorsed 2 citations
Introduced as 'Cleanthes the philosopher... downright calls the sun the striker' and his claim is reported.
But these men had not read Cleanthes the philosopher, who downright calls the sun the striker;
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in the voice of Cleanthes
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On Benefits Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 1 extended 2 citations
Cleanthes is explicitly named and quoted ('says he') making a specific argument.
"Although," says he, "what he received be not a benefit, yet he himself is ungrateful, because he would not have repaid it, even if he had received it.
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Letters Basil of Caesarea 1 endorsed 1 citation
Basil cites Cleanthes's story as authority for humble self-support.
and who now praise Cleanthes, who drew water from the well for hire, by which he both kept himself alive and paid wages to his teachers.
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in the voice of the speaker (Cicero)
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Lucullus Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 neutral 1 citation
Explicitly attributed theological claim contrasting with Zeno's, presented as Cleanthes's reported view.
Cleanthes, who is as it were a Stoic of the greater clans, the pupil of Zeno, thinks that the sun rules and holds power over things:
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Tusculan Disputations Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 refuted 1 citation · 3 passages
Corresponds to the citation of Cleanthes's consolation doctrine.
There are those who think the one office of the consoler is to show that the evil is not an evil at all, as it pleases Cleanthes;
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Protrepticus Clement of Alexandria 1 endorsed 1 citation
Cleanthes of Pedasus is quoted at length describing the qualities of the Good, presented as true theology.
"Do you ask me what the Good is like?
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