The Stoic Apollophanes of Antioch

What is it about?

This paper provides a new edition of the extant testimonies to the ‘heterodox’ Stoic Apollophanes of Antioch (3rd century BCE), a close follower of Aristo of Chios, and a full overview of his bios and doctrine as it stands out also from new important evidence not taken into account in von Arnim’s Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta. It is shown that defining Apollophanes as a ‘heterodox’ Stoic tout court does little justice to the complexity of his positions, especially those which distinguish him from his teacher, sometimes in a striking way.

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