# Cleanthes

- Id: `cleanthes`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/cleanthes/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `available`
- Content checksum: `c3c2ba7a964e84eeda21aaa1033a84fc9697a1c7b9131c85de03e1f4904380aa`

## Summary

Second head of the Stoa, Cleanthes joins cosmic order to willing, sustainable action through one surviving hymn and source-qualified ancient carriers.

## Overview

Cleanthes died around 230 BCE. Only the Hymn to Zeus survives continuously; his prose doctrines reach us through later carriers.

## Lifespan

```json
{
    "display": "c. 330–c. 230 BCE",
    "era": "Hellenistic and Roman era",
    "distance": "about 2,255 years ago",
    "age_at_death": null
}
```

## Intellectual tradition

```json
{
    "id": "stoicism",
    "name": "Stoicism",
    "detail": "Old Stoa",
    "labels": [
        "Stoicism",
        "Old Stoa"
    ]
}
```

## Historical cutoff

```json
{
    "year": -230,
    "display": "230 BCE",
    "reason": "Cleanthes died around 230 BCE. Only the Hymn to Zeus survives continuously; his prose doctrines reach us through later carriers."
}
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 3,
    "passages": 132,
    "languages": [
        "en",
        "fr",
        "grc"
    ],
    "intellectual_exposures": 2,
    "typed_relationships": 2
}
```

## Places

```json
[
    {
        "name": "Assos",
        "period": "c. 330 BCE",
        "description": "Traditional birthplace.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/stoicism/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Athens",
        "period": "adult life-c. 230 BCE",
        "description": "Work, study under Zeno and succession as scholarch.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/stoicism/"
    }
]
```