Day: May 12, 2022
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STOIC CALENDAR: Bendideia 2022
The Greek and Thracian festival of Bendideia fell on the nineteenth day of the month of Thargelion. The day in 407 BCE (which would correspond to May 12th) served as the dramatic date of Plato’s Republic, in which Socrates discussed the virtue of justice. Today, we should use May 12th as a date to commemorate…