Zeno of Citium
On the Soul
Written work
On the Soul
Περὶ ψυχῆς
A lost treatise cited by Diogenes Laertius (VII 157), together with Antipater's, for the definition of the soul as warm breath (pneuma enthermon), by which we are animate and move. The corporeal conception of the soul is one of Stoicism's distinctive features against Plato.
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Authorship note
A lost work, not included in the list at VII 4; known from Diogenes Laertius' citation (VII 157).
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- Republic (Politeia) · 310
- 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
- Art of Love
- Diatribes (Interludes)
- Chreiai (Anecdotes)
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Sources
- Diógenes Laercio. Vidas y opiniones de los filósofos ilustres, libro VII, 1–160 (Zenón y la doctrina estoica), s. III d. C. Trad. inglesa de R. D. Hicks, Loeb Classical Library 185, 1925 (Wikisource en inglés); texto griego en Wikisource griega; trad. de C. D. Yonge, Bohn, 1853 (Project Gutenberg n.º 57342).
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