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APATHES

Studies in Stoic Philosophy and its

Reception in Antiquity and Beyond

Editors: Christian Vassallo (Turin), Francesca Alesse (Rome), Myrto Garani (Athens), Katerina Ierodiakonou (Geneva/Athens), Gretchen Reydams-Schils (Notre Dame), Katja Maria Vogt (New York)

This series welcomes monographs and edited volumes devoted to ancient Stoicism, from the Hellenistic to the Imperial age, its relationship with other philosophical schools in antiquity, and its legacy in medieval, modern and contemporary philosophy. Consideration is given to individual representatives of early, middle and late Stoicism, as well as to specific topics in Stoic logic, physics and ethics. The series also includes commentaries and discussions of new editions of fragments of Stoic philosophers, including in particular those of the early Stoics that are going to appear in the Fragments of the Early Stoics (FESt).

Forthcoming volumes

F. Tutrone and M. Garani (eds.), Seneca and Stoic Apatheia: Ethics, Physics, and the History of Emotions [2026]

T.W.Ö. Søvsø, Cicero’s Stoicism: Sceptical Reflections on Stoic Ethics [2026]

F.G. Corsi, in collaboration with C. Vassallo and F. Ruge, Dionysius of Cyrene: A Stoic Rising from the Ashes [2026]

L. Bossina, Stoa and Shoah: Stoic Philosophy between Hellenism, Judaism, and the German Catastrophe [forthcoming]

C. Vassallo, Diogenes of Babylon: His Thought and Place in the Final Stage of the Early Stoa [forthcoming]

Fabio Tutrone and Myrto Garani (eds.), Seneca and Stoic Apatheia: Ethics, Physics, and the History of Emotions [APATHES 1], Berlin/Boston: De Gruter Brill, 2026 (Open Access)

This volume situates itself at the intersection of two rapidly developing research areas: the investigation of Seneca’s reception of the Stoic tradition and the comparative study of the history of the emotions as culturally constructed phenomena. Impassiveness (apatheia) is usually regarded as the ultimate goal of the Stoic therapy of the emotions, since, by acting rationally, the Stoic wise person is expected to extinguish all emotions (pathē) except the ‘good’ ones (eupatheiai). Although a broad consensus exists on Seneca’s adherence to the Stoic worldview, no comprehensive study has ever been undertaken to assess the role of the notion of apatheia in the Senecan corpus in light of its connections with individual and social ethics, the physical constitution of the mind and the world, and the therapeutic task of philosophical writing. The contributions gathered in the present volume, written by a team of international scholars with recognized expertise in the area, aim to fill this gap by offering a fresh and critical overview of some of the most representative Senecan works, both in prose and in verse, which will be useful to classicists, ancient philosophers, cultural historians, and scholars of cognitive and psychological sciences.

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