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Podcast: Stoa Conversations: Stoicism Applied
Episode: Ancient Heroes with Alex Petkas (Episode 9)
Description: Want to become more Stoic? Join us and other Stoics this October: Stoicism Applied by Caleb Ontiveros and Michael Tremblay on MavenWhat lessons are hidden in ancient biographies?Alex Petkas is a former Classics professor who now works in the industrial coatings industry. Combining theory and practice. Â Modernizing Plutarch's Parallel Lives in his Cost of Glory podcast is one of his key projects. Plutarch was an ancient biographer, his most famous work, Parallel Lives, Â is a set of biographies of great Roman and Greeks that we can learn a lot from today.In...