Letters of Stoic Wisdom | Marcus Aurelius and Fronto
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🗓️ 20 October 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Marcus Aurelius' letters to his rhetoric teacher, Fronto, give us a unique look into his life and relationships. As Brigid Delaney said in her recent interview on the Daily Stoic, "if you want to understand Meditations, Letters to Fronto is a really great place to start."
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These letters were first edited and translated into English by C. R. Haines.
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| 1:25.0 | your actual life. Thank you for listening. Hey, it's Ryan. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoke Podcast. When I was in Australia, I interviewed Bridget Delaney, I brought you that episode, not that long ago. |
| 1:47.0 | One of the things she and I talked about was Marx Realist's letters. |
| 1:52.0 | So obviously, Meditations is Mark Surrealist's letters. So obviously meditations is Mark's realist's famous work, that's the one we talk about the most, but it is pretty remarkable that a handful of his letters survive. And she spent a year living like a stoic she talks about this in her book |
| 2:05.9 | reasons not to worry and one of the things I started the interview off was |
| 2:09.0 | asking her about these letters because they're not as well known but they should be and so I wanted to |
| 2:14.2 | bring you a chunk of those today. Mark's realist is writing to Fronto. |
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