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The Seven Against Thebes: Maidens’ Opening Chorus

February 21, 2022April 21, 2022 / Giuseppe Gillespie / Leave a comment

The Seven Against Thebes is a short play written by the classical Greek tragic poet Aeschylus...

Myths in Minutes: Perseus and Andromeda

September 14, 2021 / Giuseppe Gillespie / Leave a comment

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

August 31, 2021 / Giuseppe Gillespie / Leave a comment

Reflect that the chief source of all evils to man...

Epictetus: He is Free

August 29, 2021 / Giuseppe Gillespie / Leave a comment

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

August 27, 2021August 27, 2021 / Giuseppe Gillespie / Leave a comment

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

August 27, 2021 / Giuseppe Gillespie / Leave a comment

What you avoid suffering, do not attempt to make others suffer...

Epictetus: The Guide

August 26, 2021August 26, 2021 / Giuseppe Gillespie / Leave a comment

A guide, on finding a man who has lost his way, brings him back to the right path...

Symposium: Desire

August 26, 2021August 26, 2021 / Giuseppe Gillespie / Leave a comment

He and everyone who desires...

Epictetus: Trio

August 25, 2021 / Giuseppe Gillespie / Leave a comment

A trio of quotes from the philosophy of Epictetus...

Epictetus: Beloved as the Sun

August 24, 2021August 24, 2021 / Giuseppe Gillespie / Leave a comment

As the sun does not wait for prayers and incantations to be induced to rise, but immediately shines and is saluted by all...

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