“Commemoration of Love, Friendship, and Women” [[ This post is adapted with edits from the 2022 post ]] Plato’s Symposium … Read MoreSTOIC CALENDAR: Lenaia 2023
The second ‘scholarch’ of the Stoic school, Cleanthes, died in 232 BCE. In what would have corresponded to Oct. 6th … Read MoreSTOIC CALENDAR: Agyrmos 2022
Augustus (or, Sextilis) XII marked the Roman Festival of Herculia which commemorated Herculi Invictus (Hercules the Victor). It corresponded with … Read MoreSTOIC CALENDAR: Herakleia 2022
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