Christian Vassallo, Michele Alessandrelli, Stavros Kouloumentas (eds)
Reference : 70589
, Brepols, 2025 Paperback, Pages: 412, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:4 b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503602875.
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 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 Tr panier 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 Indices