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Ask Daily Stoic: Ryan and Angel Parham On Why Studying the Classics Is So Important

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Education, Stoicism, Stoic, Ryan Holiday, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Business, Daily Stoic, Stoic Philosophy, Philosophy, 694393

4.55.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

On today’s Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan and Angel Parham of Loyola University New Orleans talk about the classics: how she first fell in love with them, the importance of classics in education, and what resources are available to bring them into your and your family’s lives. 

Angel Parham is a professor at Loyola University New Orleans. She has studied the classics in college and beyond, and is now an advocate of classics-based education. Dr. Parham currently uses a classics-based curriculum to homeschool her children and give them a solid foundation in the values that the classics convey.

Check out Nyansa Classical Community, an organization created by Dr. Parham to bring classical education to underprivileged children in New Orleans: https://nyansaclassicalcommunity.org/

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2:28.2

Hey, it's Ryan. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoke Podcast. Obviously, we talk a lot here on the show in my writings in the Daily Stoke email about the works of the classics, not just the Stoics, but the classic literature, you know, Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare.

2:46.2

That, you know, can be intimidating and a bit foreign to people. Obviously, it wasn't to the Stoics, as I talk about in lives of the Stoics. One of the Stoics, I believe it was Chrysipis, was such a fan of Euripides Medea that he said he quoted the entirety of Medea in one of his books.

3:04.2

And you can't help it when you read Marcus Realis or Seneca, notice just how much classical literature plays, books, poems, they quote. And, you know, if we assume that Marcus Realis is doing this, you know, in his journal, that means he's probably doing a lot of it from memory. That's how familiar they were with these things.

3:23.2

And as you, as you get later in history, you know, Shakespeare sort of replaces some of the ancients, but the classics loom large in the great works of philosophy and history and literature.

3:34.2

And, you know, I went to a good public school, but it certainly was not like some rock star student. I went to a decent, you know, college before I dropped out.

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