Kleanthes of Assos
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23728288 |
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| Authors | Matthias Haake (0000-0002-7019-5793, University of Münster, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Publication date | 2012-10-26 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | The Encyclopedia of Ancient History (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah09139 |
| OpenAlex | W1507210319 |
| ISBN | 9781444338386 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
The philosopher Kleanthes of Assos (331/30?‐231/30 or, more probably, 230/29 BCE ) was the second head of the Stoa. Not much is known with certainty about his life. He became scholarch (head of the school) after the death of Zeno Of Kition, the school's founder and his teacher (261/60), and remained in this function for more than thirty years, until his suicide. Because of his great age, his date of birth has been a matter of controversy: against the background of textual problems in Diogenes Laertius and some logical assumptions, his birth has been placed around 310, but this dating is not convincing.
Ancient history · Art · Certainty · Epistemology · Genealogy · Head (geology) · Literature · Zeno's paradoxes · Byzantine Studies and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Geology · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Paleontology · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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