ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces the notion of post-medieval synthesis. It holds that the return of other lost pagan intellectual traditions during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, including Atomism, Skepticism, and Stoicism, should be understood in much the same way that previous medieval syntheses have long been understood, namely, as additional iterations within a vital tradition of appropriation and reception. Among other thinkers mentioned are Clement of Alexandria (AD ca. 150–ca. 215), Sextus Empiricus (AD ca. 160–ca. 210), and Zeno of Citium (334–262 BC).
