This is an excerpt from How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius.
A few years ago, when my daughter Poppy was four, she began asking me to tell her stories. I didn’t know any children’s stories, so I told her what came to mind: stories about Greek myths, heroes, and philosophers. …
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