Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast, designed to help bring those four key Stoic virtues,

courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world.

They are calling to you.

It wasn't that long ago.

It wasn't that far away.

Greece and Rome are not a distant land from a foreign past. Marcus Aurelius and Seneca and Epictetus and Zeno and Cleanthes are

closer than you think, and not that different from you. The world is young, Emerson said.

The former great men and women called to us affectionately.

In fact, Zeno got the same advice from the Oracle at Delphi, who told them that the good

life meant conversations with the dead. Books, philosophy, even this podcast, it's a way to

convene with them, a reminder that they dealt with the same problems we did, lived in the same

world as us. In his amazing book, History Matters, we carried at the painted porch, David McCullough

noted that there is no such thing as the dead past. The marvelous thing about the past is

whenever you reach down into it, all you find is life.

The ancients are there to guide us.

They give us their example as well as their explicit advice,

Seneca's letters or Marcus Reuze's meditations.

We had their speeches.

We can watch their plays.

We can look up at their statues.

We can struggle to live up

to their expectations, we can learn from their mistakes. It wasn't that long ago that they

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