Kimo ̄n (250 BCE – 30 CE)
A P., in G CMLoc 3.1 (12.637 K.), records his remedy for purulent
ears, compounded of castoreum, alum, saffron, myrrh, frankincense, to be taken with must,
or myrtle-wine, or with honey-wine if the infection is recent, with vinegar if old. The name,
known from the 6th c. BCE to the 1st c. CE, is slightly concentrated in the 4th/3rd cc. BCE
(LGPN 1.255, 2.261, 3A.241, 3B.230).
RE 11.1 (1921) 454 (#9), F.E. Kind.
GLIM
Kineas of Thessalia (ca 325 – 277 BCE)
The very eloquent ambassador (ca 282 – 277) of King P E ̄, Kineas was a
student of the orator De ̄mosthene ̄s, and a follower of E (P, Pyrrh. 14 – 22).
He wrote a history of Thessalia (FGrHist 603), and abridged A T and the
king’s own work (Aelianus, Taktika 1.2).
BNP 3 (2003) 342 (#2), J. Engels.
PTK
Kleandros of Surakousai (350 BCE – 200 CE?)
Wrote On the Horizon, a geographical work explaining that concept, cited only by the
scholiast at Iliad 5.6. Cf. perhaps K S.
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PTK
Kleanthe ̄s of Assos (ca 290 – 230 BCE)
Born ca 330; student and successor of Z K as head of the Stoa from 262 to
- Ancient sources depict Kleanthe ̄s as hard working, if a bit of a dullard. He is said to
have been a boxer before going to Athens and studying under Ze ̄no ̄n, and he reputedly
financed his study with manual labor. He appears to have had some trouble defending
Stoic doctrines against attacks by Arkesilaos the Academic Skeptic, and by the dissident
Stoic Aristo ̄n of Khios. Kleanthe ̄s’ student C is said to have eventually entered
the fray to defend more vigorously and successfully the Stoic position. D
L (7.174–175) attributes 50 works to him, with focuses on ethics, theology, and
physics. Kleanthe ̄s wrote on the Stoic doctrine of the end-of-the-world conflagration, on
time, on sense perception, on H, and on Ze ̄no ̄n’s natural philosophy, as well as
the Hymn to Zeus. He also composed a book sharply critical of A S’
heliocentrism. He used the human body as an analogy for the kosmos, with the Sun as
the he ̄gemonikon (soul) of the universe. He also elaborated Ze ̄no ̄n’s concept of pneuma.
He is the first Stoic to answer the Master Argument of D K by denying the
necessity of past truths, and he may have introduced the category of lekta (“sayables”) into
Stoic logic.
Ed.: SVF 1.103–139.
Daryn Lehoux
KIMO ̄N