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[[NOTE: This is a reposting of my “Cato 2022” blog article with some modifications]] The everyday expressions of earlier times … Read MoreSTOIC CALENDAR: Cato 2023

Commemorating of a Graceful Death Today is March 17th, the day Marcus Aurelius died in 180 CE. I’m of the … Read MoreThe Death of Marcus Aurelius 2023

Commemorating Friends and Ancestors Past [[this post is an updated version of my 2022 version]] Februarius XIII (Ides of February) marked … Read MoreParentalia 2023

As I’m sure you’re all aware, today is “Martin Luther King Jr. Day”, MLK’s birthday. If you have not read … Read MoreMLK and Stoicism (2023)

[This is a reposting of the 2022 post] Today corresponds to the birthday of Epicurus, the founder of Epicureanism. The … Read MoreSTOIC CALENDAR: Zeno & Epicurus 2023

“Commemoration of Love, Friendship, and Women” [[ This post is adapted with edits from the 2022 post ]] Plato’s Symposium … Read MoreSTOIC CALENDAR: Lenaia 2023

[THIS POST HAS BEEN ADAPTED FROM THE 2021 VERSION] On December VII, 43 BCE Cicero was finally overtaken by the … Read MoreSTOIC CALENDAR: Commemoration of Cicero 2022

[[this post is adapted and expanded from a 2020 post of mine]] TODAY is Thanksgiving in the United States. It … Read MoreSTOIC CALENDAR: Stoic Thanksgiving 2022

Pyanopsia was a Greek festival held in commemoration of Apollo on the seventh day of the month of Pyanepsion. The … Read MoreSTOIC CALENDAR: Pyanopsia 2022