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Cleanthes

noun

Ancient Greek philosopher who succeeded Zeno of Citium as the leader of the Stoic school (300-232 BC).

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... at first a crabbed misanthrope. The lovely Musarion takes him in hand and teaches him her art of love as a philosophy of the Graces. 2: The Stoic Cleanthes is one of the characters ...

— An anthology of German literature • Calvin Thomas

... fire, at once drew a representation of himself on the wall with a piece of coal. For some time after that it was the custom to draw in outline only, without any colouring, Pliny again being our authority. This was afterwards introduced by Philocles of Egypt with considerable pains, and also by Cleanthes and Ardices of Corinth and by Telephanes of Sicyon. Cleophantes of Corinth was the first of the Greeks to use colours, and Apollodorus was the first to introduce the brush. Polignotus of Thasos, Zeuxis and Timagoras of Chalcis, ...

— The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Volume 1 (of 8) • Giorgio Vasari

... Zeno, Cleanthes, Diogenes Babylonius, Dionysius, Heracleotes, Antipater, Panaetius, and Possidonius amongst the Greeks;—Cato and Varro and Seneca amongst the Romans;—Pantenus and Clemens Alexandrinus and Montaigne amongst the Christians; and a score and a half of good, honest, unthinking ...

— The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman • Laurence Sterne

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