Brutus the Tyrannicide · Philosopher Turned Assassin
Rome, March 15, 44 BCE Marcus Junius Brutus walked to the Senate meeting with a dagger concealed beneath his toga. He was forty years old,…
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The Rubicon · Caesar’s Point of No Return
Northern Italy, January 10, 49 BCE The Rubicon was barely a river. More stream than barrier, shallow enough to wade across, narrow enough that the…
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Pompey the Great · How Rome’s Greatest General Lost Everything
Egypt, September 28, 48 BCE The ship anchored off Pelusium, Egypt. From the deck, Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus watched a small boat row out from shore….
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The Catiline Conspiracy · When Cicero Saved Rome with Words and Blood
Rome, November 8, 63 BCE The Senate gathered before dawn in the Temple of Jupiter Stater. Not their usual meeting place. The normal Senate house…
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Memento Mori in the Ancient World · Plague, War, and the Shortness of Life
Rome, 166 CE The smoke rose from the pyres day and night. Bodies wrapped in linen lined the streets near the Esquiline Gate, waiting their…
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Cato the Younger · The Last Roman Republican’s Stand Against Caesar
Utica, 46 BCE The war was over. At Thapsus, Caesar had crushed the last resistance of the republicans. In North Africa, his legions marched with…
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Essays | Philosophy | Stoicism
The Four Virtues · A Framework for Living Well
In the spring of 175, Marcus Aurelius marched east with his legions. Rome’s frontiers were unstable, threatened by invasions, rebellions, and plague. He was emperor…
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Essays | Philosophy | Stoicism
The Dichotomy of Control · Mastering What’s Yours, Releasing What’s Not
Modern life is restless. We wake to buzzing phones, chase tasks through crowded days, and collapse at night only to repeat it again tomorrow. There…
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Essays | Philosophy | Stoicism
Stoicism and Modern Life · Ancient Wisdom for a Better Way to Live
Modern life feels busy, but it is a shallow kind of busy. We fill our days with scrolling, with comfort, with noise, but none of…
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Essays | Philosophy | Stoicism
Stoicism Without Christ · Can You Live Ethically Without Religion?
For many, morality has been tied to the religion they grew up with. The Bible, the church, the sermons. All of it presented as the…
