Stoic Presocratics – Presocratic Stoics

Studies in the Stoic Reception of Early Greek Philosophy

Edited by Christian Vassallo Edited by Michele Alessandrelli Edited by Stavros Kouloumentas

Book cover: Stoic Presocratics – Presocratic Stoics

Extent: 412 pages

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Subjects: Classical Studies, Philosophy

Series: Philosophie hellenistique et romaine / Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy

Series volume number: 17

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(June 2025)

ISBN: 9782503602875

Price: $63.00

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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.


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).

  • Edited by Christian Vassallo
  • Edited by Michele Alessandrelli
  • Edited by Stavros Kouloumentas