Ann Wroe On The Real Story Of Pontius Pilate, And His Connection To Stoicism
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🗓️ 2 August 2023
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Ryan speaks with Ann Wroe about her book Pontius Pilate: The Biography of an Invented Man, what she has learned over her long career of writing obituaries, why death is the great equalizer, the intrigue and misunderstanding of Pontius Pilate and his life, and more.
Ann Wroe is an author and columnist who has been the obituaries editor of The Economist since 2003. She has published several non-fiction books including biographies of Percy Shelley and Perkin Warbeck, and a book on the subject of the mythological figure of Orpheus, which won the London Hellenic Prize. Her biography of Pilate was shortlisted for the 1999 Samuel Johnson Prize. Ann became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, and she is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired |
| 0:12.6 | by the ancient Stoics, a short passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength |
| 0:18.5 | and insight here in everyday life. |
| 0:21.6 | And on Wednesdays, we talk to some of our fellow students of ancient philosophy, well-known |
| 0:27.5 | and obscure, fascinating, and powerful. |
| 0:30.7 | With them, we discuss the strategies and habits that have helped them become who they are |
| 0:35.6 | and also to find peace and wisdom in their actual lives. |
| 0:40.1 | But first, we've got a quick message from one of our sponsors. |
| 0:44.2 | Hey, it's Ryan Holliday, welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast. |
| 1:01.9 | Sometimes I read a book and I'm just like, wow, where did this come from? |
| 1:06.2 | This is just an amazing work of art, like it's just masterful in every sense. |
| 1:12.6 | And I don't know why I ended up reading this biography of Pontius Pilate, but man, it |
| 1:17.1 | was so good. |
| 1:19.0 | I could only read a couple pages at a time and I needed to like stop and just think. |
| 1:24.8 | I just needed to take a minute and think about. |
| 1:27.3 | That's how good this book was. |
| 1:29.7 | And man, seriously, I have not read a book this good in a very long time. |
| 1:34.8 | So I just had to have the author on the podcast and wrote. |
| 1:39.1 | He's an author and an editor. |
| 1:40.9 | She's been at the economist since 1976, where she was the books editor and then the US editor. |
| 1:46.6 | And since 2003, she's been the obituaries editor. |
| 1:50.2 | She typically does one obituary in each print issue, she's written hundreds of obituaries, |
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