Robin Homer

The Enchiridion or Handbook of Epictetus is a short manual of Stoic ethical advice compil...

This is a summary of Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations. Meditations is essentially a scr...

The Apology of Socrates, written by Plato, is a Socratic dialogue of the speech of legal ...

Marcus Aurelius ruled the Roman empire from AD 161-180. He wrote the 12 books of the Medi...

On Clemency is a two volume (incomplete) hortatory essay written in 55–56 CE by Sen...

Gaius Musonius Rufus was a Roman Stoic philosopher of the 1st century AD. He has been ref...

The first book in the essays of Seneca deals with good and evil. The dialogue is opened b...

Of a Happy Life is an essay written by Seneca around the year 58 AD. It was intended for ...

The ninth essay from Lucius Annaeus Seneca. The work opens with Serenus asking Seneca for...

On the Shortness of Life was written by Seneca around the year 49AD. He argues that we wa...

Marcia actively mourned the death of her son Metilius for over three years. In Of Consola...

Of Leisure only survives in a fragmentary state. The work concerns the rational use of sp...

A classic book that emphasizes the importance of inner peace and self-control. Offering i...