The following works arc attributed to him : Of Apathy, two books. On Training, two books. Of Pleasure, four books. Of Wealth, Popularity and Revenge. How to live amongst '&' Men. Of Prosperity. Of Ancient Kings. Of those who are Praised. Of the Customs of Barbarians. These three, then, are the heterodox Stoics. • The legitimate successor to Zeno, however, was Cleanthes : of whom we have now to speak. Chapter 5. CLEANTHES (331-232 b.c.) Cleanthes. son of Phanias, was a native of Assos. This man, says Antisthenes in his Successions of Philosophers, was at first a pugilist. He arrived in Athens, as some people say, with four drachmas only, and meeting with Zeno he studied philosophy right nobly and adhered to the same doctrines throughout. He was renowned for his industry, being indeed driven by extreme poverty to work for a living. Thus, while by night he used to draw water in gardens, by day he exercised himself in arguments : hence the nickname Phreantles or Welllifter was given him. He is said to have been brought into court to answer the inquiry how so sturdy a fellow as he made his living, and then to have been acquitted on producing as his witnesses the gardener in whose garden he drew water and the woman who sold the meal which he used to crush. The Areopagites were satisfied and voted him a vol. ii T 273