Philodemus of Gadara - Invective Against Zeno & Diogenes (audiobook)

NOTICE: This audiobook contains lacunae

This is a passage from the work "On the Stoics" by the Epicurean philosopher, Philodemus of Gadara, where he elaborates on and scolds the 'republics' of Zeno of Citium and Diogenes of Sinope.

This translation is by Tiziano Dorandi, 1982, and is part of the works found in the Heculeanum Papyri. P.Herc. 155

0:00 Introduction
0:22 Differences between Epicurus and Zeno
2:41 Zeno's Republic and its errors
6:09 Differences within the Stoic school
8:29 Authenticity of Diogenes' Republic
10:56 Description of the republics of Zeno and Diogenes

Artwork: Antoine Carot - Augustus and the Sibyl (c.1575)

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