Nero banished Musonius to Gyaros, the Alcatraz of the Mediterranean. Source: Olaf Tausch/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 3.0. Stoic philosophy has exerted an important influence on the history of ideas, ...

For the second time in 1,800 years, Epictetus has been rescued from philosophical limbo by a devoted admirer. The first time was when one of his students, Flavius Arrianus, didn’t throw away his ...