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Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast. One of my favorite jokes from Epic Titus. He hears two of his students bragging about having read all of the works of Chrysipus.

Now, Chrysipus is an early Stoic philosopher and he wrote a lot. Someone that 700 books, almost none of them survive except for a few fragments.

But what we know of Chrysipus is that he was a particularly dense and maybe not the easiest to read of the Stoic.

He's what we think of when we think of philosophers, particularly ancient philosophers, unpronounceable name, super smart, too smart for his own good, pretentious maybe a little bit, all these things.

Anyways, Epic Titus hears him bragging about it and he goes, you know what? If Chrysipus was a better writer, you'd have less to brag about.

Meaning that if Chrysipus had written more clearly and more excessively, the students wouldn't be so hotty and pretentious because everyone would be able to read it.

And I've always thought of that as a great encapsulation of what Stoicism is really about.

It's not totally fair to Chrysipus who is the successor of Clientys, so basically the third head of the Stoic school.

We don't really know how good or bad he was as a writer because most of them are lost to us, but this could change.

Actually, they've begun to discover some of his works entombed at Herculanium and at Pompeii.

And so perhaps future generations will have a very different understanding of Chrysipus.

Chrysipus was a fighter, a protector, a bit pedantic at times, but overall a fascinating guy, much to learn from.

Senka is a huge fan of his less so, Epic Titus for the reasons we mentioned earlier.

But in today's episode, I wanted to give you Dijadjini's Leartes' miniature biography of Chrysipus.

We've been bringing you some of these lately, read by the one and only Michael Reed, who we brought on as a narrator.

He's been doing a great job. You might recognize him from some of our YouTube videos as well.

And if you haven't read Lives of the Stoics, we do a deep dive into Chrysipus there as well.

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