Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta is a collection of fragments and testimonia of the earlier Stoics

Stoicism

Stoicism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium in the early . The Stoics taught that destructive emotions resulted from errors in judgment, and that a sage, or person of "moral and intellectual perfection," would not suffer such emotions.Stoics were concerned...

 composed in 1903-1905 by Hans von Arnim. It includes the fragments and testimonia of Zeno of Citium

Zeno of Citium

Zeno of Citium was a Greek philosopher from Citium . Zeno was the founder of the Stoic school of philosophy, which he taught in Athens from about 300 BC. Based on the moral ideas of the Cynics, Stoicism laid great emphasis on goodness and peace of mind gained from living a life of virtue in...

, Chrysippus

Chrysippus

Chrysippus of Soli was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was a native of Soli, Cilicia, but moved to Athens as a young man, where he became a pupil of Cleanthes in the Stoic school. When Cleanthes died, around 230 BC, Chrysippus became the third head of the school...

 and their immediate followers. At first the work consisted of three volumes, to which Maximilian Adler in 1924 added a fourth, containing general indices.

Division of the work

• Volume 1 - Fragments of Zeno and his folllowers
• Volume 2 - Logical and physical fragments of Chrysippus
• Volume 3 - Ethical fragments of Chrysippus and some fragments of his pupils
• Volume 4 - Indices of words, proper names and sources