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Professor Josiah Osgood on Cato, Caesar and the Battle for Rome's Legacy

The Daily Stoic

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What's Stoicism?

Stoicism is so much the philosophy of thoughtful Roman senators who are dealing with this question of, you know, what do you do if you live under a tyrant? Yes. And I think it's not something where there's an easy answer and that's kind of what's so haunting about later Roman imperial history. But then as we've been suggesting, some of these less titanic figures, like Pompey or Cicero, who are kind of thoughtfully dealing with the problems too. Yeah.

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