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Born a Slave, Built an Inner Empire: Epictetus's Question
How Marcus, a Slave, and Seneca Beat Anxiety Every Morning
A man born into slavery around the year 50 CE became the teacher emperors and presidents would turn to, and his words survived two thousand years without him ever writing a line. What did he teach that turned legal property into an inner authority that guided Marcus Aurelius, Theodore Roosevelt, and Admiral James Stockdale?
In this episode, we follow Epictetus’s life from slavery to legendary teacher, trace the spread of his ideas across two millennia, and ask the same question he asked his students: "In what have you improved?" How…
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