# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cleinias-of-tarentum
# Generated: 2026-08-16T11:07:09.311Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cleinias-of-tarentum"
name: "Cleinias of Tarentum"
slug: "cleinias-of-tarentum"
description: "Cleinias of Tarentum, Magna Graecia, was a Pythagorean philosopher, and a contemporary and friend of Plato, as appears from the story which Diogenes Laërtius gives on the authority of Aristoxenus, to the effect that Plato wished to burn all the writings of Democritus which he could collect, but was prevented by Cleinias and Amyclus of Heraclea. In his practice, Cleinias was a true Pythagorean. Thus, we hear that he used to assuage his anger by playing on his harp; and, when Prorus of Cyrene had lost all his fortune through a political revolution, Cleinias, who knew nothing of him except that he was a Pythagorean, took on himself the risk of a voyage to Cyrene, and supplied him with money to the full extent of his loss."
tagline: "Pythagorean philosopher"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "-500"
deathDate: "-400"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.51
  momentum:             0.1801801801801802
  historical:           8.537401333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klinija_iz_Tarenta"
    title: "Klinija iz Tarenta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%81_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85"
    title: "كلينياس اوف تارينتوم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cl%C3%ADnies_de_T%C3%A0rent"
    title: "Clínies de Tàrent"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleinias_von_Tarent"
    title: "Kleinias von Tarent"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleinias_of_Tarentum"
    title: "Cleinias of Tarentum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinias_de_Tarento"
    title: "Clinias de Tarento"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klimas_Tarentokoa"
    title: "Klimas Tarentokoa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinias_de_Tarente"
    title: "Clinias de Tarente"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinia_di_Taranto"
    title: "Clinia di Taranto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B9"
    title: "Клиний"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1400157"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump