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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast where each weekday we bring you a

Meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics a short

passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength and insight here in everyday life and on Wednesday

we talk to some of our fellow students of ancient philosophy well known and obscure

Fascinating and powerful with them we discuss the strategies and habits that have helped them become who they are and

also to find peace and wisdom in their actual lives, but first we've got a quick message from one of our sponsors.

Hey, it's Ryan Holiday welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast. One of the joys of my life has been

sort of popularizing ancient philosophy like people go, oh you're just a popularizer and I go, yep, that's what I'm trying to do.

So it's not an insult and consider myself in very good company not just with great popularizers of other ideas like a Malcolm Godwell, but I'm not the only one

taking philosophical ideas and

bringing them to a wide audience, Donald Robertson who I've had on the podcast I've raved about his work before

Elaine DeBitton however that's pronounced and school of life has done a spectacular job of popularizing a bunch of philosophical ideas and actually my guest today has made

Aristotle exciting and interesting not just to eight hundreds of thousands of people, but most famously to Shakira who took her four week course on Plato during the lockdown phase of the pandemic in early 2020.

I guess today is professor Susan Sove Meyer she's a BA from the University of Toronto she has a PhD from Cornell she's taught at Harvard and now she teaches at the University of Pennsylvania at Penn she is a specialist in Greek and Roman philosophy focuses on the ancient ethical tradition and

And that makes her look particularly hard at Aristotle and the Stoics her book ancient ethics came out in 2008 is a systematic treatment of Plato Aristotle and Epicurian and Stoic ideas and it's fascinating book more than a hundred thousand people around the world

have taken her open access online courses on ancient philosophy and she has a new book as part of the series I have raved about many times here the Princeton University presses ancient wisdom series and this one is called how to flourish an ancient guide to living well which is a translation of Aristotle she translates it makes the selections and then tacked on a wonderful little introduction to it comes out on June 20th

She and I had a fascinating and super fun conversation and I think are really going to enjoy it so here's to all the popularizers out there whatever it is that you do there I think there's something special is nothing to be proud of certainly worst occupations in the world and taking something you're really passionate about something that means a lot to you bringing it to people and people to it that's what gets me out of bed in the morning that's what I'm doing here on this very podcast open to popularize from

Professor Myers excellent work enjoy well done you've sorted through the embarrassment of riches that is the modern podcast landscape and found me Rob Briden on my podcast in this series of pride and I talk to among others Harry Hill Ben Elton Charlotte Church Steve Cougar

and Dave Marriott Walter and that's just a few we tend to chat for about 45 minutes to an hour never longer it's terrific conversation

reminiscent where appropriate and exchange of anecdotes so do join me Rob Briden wherever you get your podcasts new episodes of Briden and are available early and add free on Amazon music or by subscribing to Wondery Plus in Apple podcasts or the Wondery app.

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