Johan C. Thom, Cleanthes' Hymn to Zeus. Text, Translation, and Commentary.

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Johan C. Thom, Cleanthes' Hymn to Zeus. Text, Translation, and Commentary. Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum 33. Tubingen, Mohr Siebeck. 2005. Pp. 207. ISBN 3-16-148660-9.

The hymn addressed to Zeus composed by the Second Stoic scholar Cleanthes is a short text of thirty-nine lines quoted by John Stobaeus in the first book of his Anthology, and preserved in a single important Neapolitan manuscript. Despite its brevity, the hymn is rightly regarded as a text of immense significance. Very few complete texts from the early Stoa have survived (as any ...

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