THE NEW VON ARNIM PROJECT 

The main goal of the ERC-CoG 101086695-APATHES is to provide a methodologically new and groundbreaking edition of the fragments of the early Stoic philosophers. So far, the standard critical edition has been that by Hans von Arnim, which dates back to the beginning of the 20th century: the monumental Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta (1903-1905, in 3 volumes). In more than 100 years, many things have changed: new material evidence has emerged, technologies in the humanities have significantly improved, updated critical editions of ancient texts have appeared. In light of such circumstances, the ERC project APATHES aims exactly at providing the scholarly world a ‘New von Arnim’, a multi-volume edition of the extant fragments of the early Stoics to be published by De Gruyter.

This edition combines expertise above all in Classical Philology, Papyrology, and the History of Ancient Philosophy in order to present a complete and up-to-date picture of the early Stoics, from Zeno of Citium, the founder of the School around 300 BCE, to the followers of Diogenes of Babylon. All texts are cited from their current editions, sometimes with relevant modifications, along with newly edited Graeco-Egyptian and Herculaneum papyri as well as Arabic and Syriac texts. Critical apparatuses with the most important textual variants make the collection a solid tool for philologically equipped scholarship. Interpretative notes discuss philosophical problems encountered in these texts and situate them in the current research. The reader is thus provided with a sound textual basis and a guide for further research. Complete English translations render the collection accessible to a non-specialist audience as well.