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Andrew Sullivan on The Classics, Independence, and the Human Experience

The Daily Stoic

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How Long Was the Past Between Marcus Aurelius and Euripides?

We live in a cult of contemporaneity, he says. The fact that people with brains like ours would erecognizable to as humans have been on the planet for 100 and 50 thousand years is mind-boggling. He writes: "It kind of humbles you just how far the past stretches back"

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