Author: losangelesstoics

In Plato’s Parmenides, the characters gather in the house of Pythadorus in the Kerameikos neighborhood of Athens just outside the … Read MoreSTOIC CALENDAR: Panathenaia 2022

It’s a slow process but I’m finding different ways to make our group and our website better. With the help … Read MoreGROUP UPDATE: Email Lists

Happy New Year! If we were following the Attic Lunisolar Calendar, today (June 30th) would be New Year’s Day. Like … Read MoreSTOIC CALENDAR: Attic New Years 2022

After a careful reading of letters 72 and 75 in Seneca’s Letters to Lucilius (trans. Graver & Long), my mind … Read MoreSeneca’s Stages of Progress

Today marks the 2,421st anniversary of Socrates’ death, which took place on June 15th, 399 BC in Athens. On May … Read MoreSTOIC CALENDAR: The Death of Socrates 2022

On the second day of Thargelion (May 16th in the Julian calendar), 399 BCE, at the age of 70 years … Read MoreSTOIC CALENDAR: The Trial of Socrates 2022

The Greek and Thracian festival of Bendideia fell on the nineteenth day of the month of Thargelion. The day in … Read MoreSTOIC CALENDAR: Bendideia 2022

Marcus Annius Verus was born on ante diem V kalendas Maias (‘the fifth day before the start of May’) or … Read MoreSTOIC CALENDAR: Marcus Aurelius 2022

Last year on Earth Day, I expressed some thoughts on environmental conservationism (in another forum). I thought I would just … Read MoreEarth Day 2022

On the 19th of Aprilis (or, as Nero demanded it be called, Neroneus) in 65 CE, a plot to assassinate … Read MoreSTOIC CALENDAR: Seneca 2022