If I'm not wrong, the author is a noted critic of the Stoics and especially of the recent revival of interest in Stoicism, and their promotion of Epicureanism m

If I'm not wrong, the author is a noted critic of the Stoics and especially of the recent revival of interest in Stoicism, and their promotion of Epicureanism may well be originating from that end. So I guess we can't trust them to give an impartial view of Stoicism.