Stoicism as a Spartan Philosophy of Life
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 and an animal pelt and whatever else tallied with the Gree…
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