The Seven Against Thebes is a short play written by the classical Greek tragic poet Aeschylus...
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Myths in Minutes: Perseus and Andromeda
On his way home from slaying the Gorgon Medusa, Perseus came to Ethiopia where he saw a beautiful maiden chained to a rock on the shoreline...
Epictetus: Fear of Death
Reflect that the chief source of all evils to man...
Epictetus: He is Free
He is free who lives as he wishes to live, to whom none can do violence, none hinder or compel...
Myths in Minutes: King Midas
Midas was the king of Phrygia. Recognizing an old drunk as the satyr (nature spirit) Silenus, companion of Dionysos (God of wine and ecstasy)...
Epictetus: What you avoid suffering
What you avoid suffering, do not attempt to make others suffer...
Epictetus: The Guide
A guide, on finding a man who has lost his way, brings him back to the right path...
Symposium: Desire
He and everyone who desires...
Epictetus: Trio
A trio of quotes from the philosophy of Epictetus...
Epictetus: Beloved as the Sun
As the sun does not wait for prayers and incantations to be induced to rise, but immediately shines and is saluted by all...