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Philosophie hellénistique et romaine / Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, vol. 17
Stoic Presocratics – Presocratic Stoics
Studies in the Stoic Reception of Early Greek Philosophy
Christian Vassallo, Michele Alessandrelli, Stavros Kouloumentas (eds)
- Pages: approx. 380 p.
- Size:156 x 234 mm
- Illustrations:4 b/w
- Language(s):English
- Publication Year:2025
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- ISBN: 978-2-503-60287-5
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- ISBN: 978-2-503-61723-7
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The 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.
BIO
Christian Vassallo is Full Professor of Papyrology at the University of Turin.
Michele Alessandrelli is Researcher at the National Research Council (CNR-ILIESI) in Rome.
Stavros Kouloumentas is Associate Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Patras.
Summary
The 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 common assumption that the Stoics refer exclusively to Heraclitus, it is shown that almost the entire Presocratic tradition (sometimes mediated decisively by Plato and Aristotle) has made a fundamental contribution to the construction of Stoic thought, especially in the field of physics (i.e. cosmology, ontology, and theology).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Michele Alessandrelli, Stavros Kouloumentas, and Christian Vassallo, Introduction
Ilaria Andolfi, Digesting Ancient Wisdom: Early Stoics, Orphic-like Cosmogonies, and the ‘Principle of Accommodation’
Ian Hensley, The Stoics and Anaximenes on Basic Corporeal Change
Michele Alessandrelli, Heraclitus’ Fire and the Early Stoics
Max Bergamo, Stoic Cosmogony and the Reception of Heraclitus’ Logos
Benjamin Harriman, Melissus and the Stoics: Body, Fullness, and Colocation
Simon Trépanier, Empedocles and the Early Stoics
Christian Vassallo, Anaxagoras Stoicus: Mind, Matter, and Cosmos
Stavros Kouloumentas, Cleanthes on the Origin of the Conception of the God: The Presocratic, Socratic, and Aristotelian Background
Myrto Garani, Democritus in Seneca’s Naturales quaestiones
Lothar Willms, The Reception of the Presocratics in Middle and Imperial Stoicism: From Doxography to Psychagogy
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