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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

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

September V marked the beginning of the most important Roman Festival of the year, Ludi Romani, in which games and … Read MoreSTOIC CALENDAR: Ludi Romani 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