Month: January 2023

  • MLK and Stoicism (2023)

    As I’m sure you’re all aware, today is “Martin Luther King Jr. Day”, MLK’s birthday. If you have not read it (or have not read it in a while), I strongly encourage you to peruse his “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” In it, he explains the important difference between “legal” and “just.” Though MLK does not…

  • STOIC CALENDAR: Zeno & Epicurus 2023

    [This is a reposting of the 2022 post] Today corresponds to the birthday of Epicurus, the founder of Epicureanism. The date was well known in ancient times and has been preserved by historians like Diogenes Laertius: He was born, according to Apollodorus in his Chronology, in the third year of the 109th Olympiad, in the…

  • STOIC CALENDAR: Lenaia 2023

    “Commemoration of Love, Friendship, and Women” [[ This post is adapted with edits from the 2022 post ]] Plato’s Symposium is a complex and beautiful dialogue. Most of the dramatic events take place in Athens at the house of Agathon, a tragedian playwright who recently won his first victory at the festival of “Lenaia,” which…