This volume provides for the first time in scholarship a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of t... more This volume provides for the first time in scholarship a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the relationship between Stoicism and early Greek philosophy, from Orphism to the Monists and the Pluralists. Going beyond the doxographic vulgate according to which the Stoics refer exclusively to Heraclitus, it is shown that almost the entire pre-Socratic tradition (sometimes mediated decisively by Plato and Aristotle) has made a fundamental contribution to the foundation of Stoic thought especially in the field of physics (i.e., cosmology, ontology, and theology).
This volume provides for the first time in scholarship a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of t... more This volume provides for the first time in scholarship a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the relationship between Stoicism and early Greek philosophy, from Orphism to the Monists and the Pluralists. Going beyond the doxographic vulgate according to which the Stoics refer exclusively to Heraclitus, it is shown that almost the entire pre-Socratic tradition (sometimes mediated decisively by Plato and Aristotle) has made a fundamental contribution to the foundation of Stoic thought especially in the field of physics (i.e., cosmology, ontology, and theology).
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