Stoa#
Summary#
The Stoa represents a philosophical movement that emerged as a period of restraint and moral discipline within Hellenic culture. Nietzsche interprets it as an “intercalary” period of fasting, arising when Greek culture had become “rank and overcharged with Aphrodisiacal odours.” In this view, Stoicism served to fetter excessive impulses and force them to purify and sharpen themselves.