Stoicism as a Spartan Philosophy of Life
What Ancient Stoics Took from the Spartan Training (Agoge)
What Ancient Stoics Took from the Spartan Training (Agoge)
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:
[…] to set my heart on a pallet-bed …
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