Stoicism as a Spartan Philosophy of Life
What Ancient Stoics Took from the Spartan Training (Agoge)
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16 min readOct 18, 2019
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, the last famous Stoic philosopher of antiquity, contains a curious passage where the Roman emperor thanks his painting tutor, Diognetus, for having introduced him to philosophy. Marcus says that Diognetus also encouraged him: