
#310 Donald Robertson- Stoicism for The Modern World
What Got You There with Sean DeLaney
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The Choice of Hercules to Day by Xenophon
Zeno, the founder of stoicism, was a phoenician. Lost his fortune at sea and found himself in a bookshop. He storted reading he book two of the memorabilia sacratus by xeno on. It's interesting cause o sause doesn't mention anything else about it. So when i began studying tocism, i thought, i'll go and get the memorabi a crisis. We still have it. What's it was? Book to i can't remember what's in book two. And i thought, wonder if there's anything interesting in the well,. funnily enough, he must be referring to one of the most famous speeches of antiquity which happens
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