What the Stoics can teach us about living through the Covid-19 crisis, with Professor A. C. Grayling

Stoicism was the ethical outlook of educated people in the Hellenic and Roman periods of classical antiquity for over 500 years, and remained influential among many of the same kind perpetually thereafter, having a major influence in the 18th century Enlightenment also. It was the ethics of practical, mature-minded people, and provided a powerful aid to lives as different as those of Marcus Aurelius, an emperor, and Epictetus, a slave. What can this ancient wisdom teach us about living through times of crisis today?

This was a Classics for All Lawyers Group event, hosted on Thursday 11 March 2021.

The video shown at 1:07:36 features the work of our Cambridge Classics Network. You can find out more about our work in this region on our website: https://classicsforall.org.uk/what-we-do/our-networks/cambridge-classics-network

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