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Cleanthes
Cleanthes
c. 330 BCE–c. 230 BCE · Athens
Cleanthes of Assos was a Greek Stoic philosopher of the 3rd century BCE who succeeded Zeno of Citium as head of the Stoic school at Athens. He is remembered for deepening the religious and physical side of Stoic thought, and especially for his 'Hymn to Zeus,' a poem expressing the Stoic vision of a rational, divine order governing the universe. By tradition he supported himself by manual labor while studying.
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The intellectual capital of the Greek world, where Socrates questioned in the agora and four great schools—Plato's Academy, Aristotle's Lyceum, the Stoa, and Epicurus' Garden—took root within a single square mile.
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