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Republic (Politeia)
Πολιτεία
Zeno's most famous work, written in his youth while he still followed Crates. According to the critics cited by Diogenes Laertius (VII 32–33), it declared ordinary education useless, called those who are not virtuous enemies and strangers to one another and reserved for the good the status of citizens, friends and free men; it established community of wives, forbade building temples, law courts and gymnasia, dispensed with coinage and ordered men and women to dress alike. Plutarch sums it up as the project of a single way of life and a single order for all men, like a herd under a common law. It is the founding text of Stoic cosmopolitanism.
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Authorship note
A lost work, known from testimonies and fragments collected in SVF I. Its authenticity was questioned by some Stoics embarrassed by its content; Chrysippus, in his On the Republic, defended it as Zeno's (Diogenes Laertius VII 34), and Philodemus discusses the matter in On the Stoics. Modern scholarship regards it as genuine.
Editions and translations
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English
The Stoics Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia
Hackett Publishing, 2008
Translation: Brad Inwood y Lloyd P. Gerson
ISBN 9780872209534
Selección de testimonios sobre Zenón y los estoicos antiguos.
The Hellenistic Philosophers, vol. 1
Cambridge University Press, 1987
Translation: A. A. Long y D. N. Sedley
ISBN 9780521275569
Fuentes estoicas traducidas y comentadas.
Zeno of Citium
The Fragments of Zeno and Cleanthes
The Conscious LibraryThe Fragments of Zeno and Cleanthes
C. J. Clay (ed. digital en Internet Archive), 1891
Translation: A. C. Pearson
Texto griego y latino con introducción y notas en inglés; dominio público.
Griego antiguo
Zeno of Citium
Stoicorum veterum fragmenta, vol. I: Zeno et Zenonis discipuli (ed. Hans von Arnim)
The Conscious LibraryStoicorum veterum fragmenta, vol. I: Zeno et Zenonis discipuli (ed. Hans von Arnim)
Teubner (ed. digital en Internet Archive), 1905
Edición de referencia de los fragmentos (SVF I 1–332 para Zenón); dominio público.
Español
Los estoicos antiguos
Gredos (Biblioteca Clásica Gredos, 230), 1996
Translation: Ángel J. Cappelletti
ISBN 9788424918439
Fragmentos y testimonios de Zenón, Aristón, Apolófanes, Herilo, Dionisio de Heraclea, Perseo, Cleantes y Esfero, según la edición de von Arnim.
Other works by Zeno of Citium
- On Impulse, or On Human Nature
- Fragments and testimonies · 1905
- On Life according to Nature
- On the Passions
- On the Appropriate (Duty)
- On Law
- On Greek Education
- On Vision
- On the Whole (the Universe)
- On Signs
- Pythagorean Questions
- Universals (General Questions)
- On Diction
- Homeric Problems (5 books)
- On Listening to Poetry
- Art (Handbook of Rhetoric)
- Solutions
- Refutations (2 books)
- Memoirs of Crates
- Ethics
- On Reason (Discourse)
- On Substance
- On the Soul
- Art of Love
- Diatribes (Interludes)
- Chreiai (Anecdotes)
- Letter to King Antigonus · 276
Sources
- Schofield, Malcolm. The Stoic Idea of the City. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1991.
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