Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius - The Big Three

There are a couple of other pretty famous stoics that you iden in your books that have very different jobs. Could you say a little more about some of the other rolls people had that still used stoicism for their life? Ye, in my circles, we refer to them as the big three. There's marcus aurelius, the emperor. There's seneca, who is a senator,. A playwright and rome's powerful sort of political adviser consulere. And then, and then there is epictetus. Epictetus, not having written anything down, but actual being a slave in nero's court. So it is really remarkable, i think

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