“Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day,” declared Ralph Waldo Emerson, anticipating James Joyce’s “Ulysses” by more than half a century. But what we’re thinking of oscillates and changes ...

Marcus Aurelius, a Roman emperor and renowned Stoic philosopher, is celebrated as the last of the "Five Good Emperors." Born ...

What have the Romans ever done for us? Well, obviously the roads – the roads go without saying. How about guidance for how to live in the 21st century? That seems less likely, but in fact the last few ...

Stoicism, an ancient Greek / Roman philosophy, has been around for a long time, dating back to 300 BC in Athens, Greece. It ...

Stoicism is an ancient Greek school of philosophy. It was founded around 301 BC by a Phoenician merchant called Zeno of Citium, who embraced an austere philosophical way of life after losing his ...