Tag: ancient philosophy
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Review: Epictetus’s Discourses
Discourses and Selected Writings (Penguin Classics) Epictetus (trans Robert Dobbin) If Marcus’s Meditations are the most popular introduction to stoic philosophy, Epictetus discourses are perhaps the most substantive. Together, they are the two books of ancient stoic thought one really must read. Born a slave, Epictetus eventually gained his freedom and taught philosophy in Rome…
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Review: Beard’s Confronting the Classics
Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations Mary Beard This is a collection of Beard’s reviews and essays from a number of publications, including many from the New York Review of Books. Organized in rough chronological order from Greece to the present, it is a bit of a hodgepodge. But what a wonderful hodgepodge it…
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Your Occasional Stoic – Friends, Teachers, Children
From Catulus: not to spurn a friend’s criticism, even if it may be unreasonable complaint, but to try to restore his usual feelings; to speak of one’s teachers with wholehearted gratitude, as is recorded of Domitius and Athenodotus; and a genuine love from children. -Meditations, 1.13 My notes tell me* that the Catulus who Marcus…
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The Books I Read in 2012
Attention conservation notice: this post is long and has nothing to do with working out. I have kept a list of every book I have read I have read since I was thirteen years old. Yeah, obsessive record keeping didn’t start with my running log. Below is a list of every book I read this…
Milo and the Calf 