1. Cicero, On The Nature of The Gods, 2.40-2.41 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •cleanthes, physical treatises 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, physical treatises Found in books: Brouwer (2013) 77 |
| 3. Cornutus, De Natura Deorum, 31 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •cleanthes, physical treatises Found in books: Brouwer (2013) 112 |
4. Plutarch, On Isis And Osiris, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •cleanthes, physical treatises Found in books: Brouwer (2013) 112 | 367c. and advances the land, that the deep waters gradually recede and, as the bottom gains in height by reason of the alluvial deposits, the water of the sea runs off from these. We also note that Pharos, which Homer knew as distant aday's sail from Egypt, is now a part of it; not that the island has extended its area by rising, or has come nearer to the land, but the sea that separated them was obliged to retire before the river, as the river reshaped the land and made it to increase. The fact is that all this is somewhat like the doctrines promulgated by the Stoics about the gods; for they say that the creative and fostering spirit is Dionysus, the truculent and destructive is Heracles, the receptive is Ammon, that which pervades the Earth and its products is Demeter and the Daughter, and that which pervades the Sea is Poseidon. |
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| 5. Plutarch, On Stoic Self-Contradictions, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •cleanthes, physical treatises Found in books: Brouwer (2013) 77, 112 |
| 6. Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum (874D-911C), None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Brouwer (2013) 77 |
| 7. Clement of Alexandria, Extracts From The Prophets, 26.3 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •cleanthes, physical treatises Found in books: Brouwer (2013) 77 |
8. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 7.90 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •cleanthes, physical treatises 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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| 9. Servius, Commentary On The Aeneid, 7.38-7.45, 7.432-7.435 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •cleanthes, physical treatises Found in books: Brouwer (2013) 112 |
| 10. Stobaeus, Anthology, 1.35.9 (5th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •cleanthes, physical treatises Found in books: Brouwer (2013) 77 |
| 11. Stoic School, Stoicor. Veter. Fragm., 1.157, 1.504, 1.514, 1.537, 1.563, 2.132, 2.789, 2.1027, 2.1093 Tagged with subjects: •cleanthes, physical treatises Found in books: Brouwer (2013) 77, 112 |
| 12. Long And Sedley, The Hellenistic Philosophers, None Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Brouwer (2013) 77 |
| 13. Cleanthes, Hymn To Zeus, 10-11 Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Brouwer (2013) 77 |
| 14. Fds, Fds, 324 Tagged with subjects: •cleanthes, physical treatises Found in books: Brouwer (2013) 112 |
| 15. Hecato, Fragments, None Tagged with subjects: •cleanthes, physical treatises Found in books: Brouwer (2013) 77 |
| 16. Plutarch, Synopsis, None Tagged with subjects: •cleanthes, physical treatises Found in books: Brouwer (2013) 77 |
