Is Mortality Salience a Part of the Hellenistic Crisis?

Mortality salience is definitely a part of the hellenistic crisis. I don't think the epicureans have a comprehensive understanding. To get a more comprehensive understanding and diagnosis, we turn to the stoics. But in order to understand the stoics, we have to understand the group that they developed out of. Those were the cynics. And the cynics were not as impressed by socrates's argumentation as plato was. In doing so, they started to force people to realize the distinction between moral codes and purity codes. So you can see how the stoics are even picking up on something that's implicit in the Epicureans.