Abstract
T HE VIEWPOINT IS STILL PUT FORWARD in very many handbooks on ancient philosophy and special accounts of Stoicism that in physics Heraclitus is the Stoics' main source.' Friedrich Solmsen, however, poses the problem well when he asks, are contemporary scholars, who treat the Stoic exegesis of Homer and Hesiod with a smile or a shrug of the shoulders, well advised if they accept the Stoic interest in Heraclitus as a basis for their own appraisal of Stoicism and its place in the history of Greek thought? And he further makes the point: there can be no doubt that the early Stoics recognized Heraclitus as their &pXjyETqs and made the most strenuous efforts to find their doctrines about the fire, about the nature of the soul, about &Va0URIl'Lcriu and also about the k6yos anticipated in his utterances. They were past masters in exegesis.2 Deeper study reveals that the most important
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