1. Cicero, On The Nature of The Gods, 2.40-2.41 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •cleanthes, on fire •fire, cleanthes on Found in books: Brouwer (2013) 77 | 2.40. That the stars consist entirely of fire Cleanthes holds to be established by the evidence of two of the senses, those of touch and sight. For the radiance of the sun is more brilliant than that of any fire, inasmuch as it casts its light so far and wide over the boundless universe; and the contact of its rays is so powerful that it not merely warms but often actually burns, neither of which things could it do if it were not made of fire. 'Therefore,' Cleanthes proceeds, 'since the sun is made of fire, and is nourished by the vapours exhaled from the ocean because no fire could continue to exist without sustece of some sort, it follows that it resembles either that fire which we employ in ordinary life or that which is contained in the bodies of living creatures. 2.41. Now our ordinary fire that serves the needs of daily life is a destructive agency, consuming everything, and also wherever it spreads it routs and scatters everything. On the other hand the fire of the body is the glow of life and health; it is the universal preservative, giving nourishment, fostering growth, sustaining, bestowing sensation.' He therefore maintains that there can be no doubt which of the two kinds of fire the sun resembles, for the sun also causes all things to flourish and to bring forth increase each after its kind. Hence since the sun resembles those fires which are contained in the bodies of living creatures, the sun also must be alive; and so too the other heavenly bodies, since they have their origin in the fiery heat of heaven that is entitled the aether or sky. |
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| 2. Seneca The Younger, Letters, 66.9, 66.11, 118.13-118.16 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •cleanthes, on fire •fire, cleanthes on Found in books: Brouwer (2013) 77 |
| 3. Plutarch, On Stoic Self-Contradictions, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •cleanthes, on fire •fire, cleanthes on Found in books: Brouwer (2013) 77 |
| 4. Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum (874D-911C), None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Brouwer (2013) 77 |
| 5. Clement of Alexandria, Extracts From The Prophets, 26.3 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •cleanthes, on fire •fire, cleanthes on Found in books: Brouwer (2013) 77 |
6. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 7.90 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •cleanthes, on fire •fire, cleanthes on Found in books: Brouwer (2013) 77 | 7.90. Virtue, in the first place, is in one sense the perfection of anything in general, say of a statue; again, it may be non-intellectual, like health, or intellectual, like prudence. For Hecato says in his first book On the Virtues that some are scientific and based upon theory, namely, those which have a structure of theoretical principles, such as prudence and justice; others are non-intellectual, those that are regarded as co-extensive and parallel with the former, like health and strength. For health is found to attend upon and be co-extensive with the intellectual virtue of temperance, just as strength is a result of the building of an arch. |
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| 7. Stobaeus, Anthology, 1.35.9 (5th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •cleanthes, on fire •fire, cleanthes on Found in books: Brouwer (2013) 77 |
| 8. Stoic School, Stoicor. Veter. Fragm., 1.157, 1.504, 1.537, 1.563, 2.789, 2.1027 Tagged with subjects: •cleanthes, on fire •fire, cleanthes on Found in books: Brouwer (2013) 77 |
| 9. Long And Sedley, The Hellenistic Philosophers, None Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Brouwer (2013) 77 |
| 10. Cleanthes, Hymn To Zeus, 10-11 Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Brouwer (2013) 77 |
| 11. Hecato, Fragments, None Tagged with subjects: •cleanthes, on fire •fire, cleanthes on Found in books: Brouwer (2013) 77 |
| 12. Plutarch, Synopsis, None Tagged with subjects: •cleanthes, on fire •fire, cleanthes on Found in books: Brouwer (2013) 77 |
