By Musonius Rufus
Musonius Rufus (c. advert 30–100) used to be one of many 4 nice Roman Stoic philosophers, the opposite 3 being Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, and Musonius’ scholar Epictetus. in the course of his existence, Musonius’ Stoicism used to be positioned to the attempt, such a lot significantly in the course of an exile to Gyaros, a barren island within the Aegean Sea. simply because Stoicism used to be, for Musonius, no longer simply a philosophy yet a prescription for day-by-day dwelling, he has been known as “the Roman Socrates.” MUSONIUS RUFUS: LECTURES AND SAYINGS will for this reason be welcomed by way of those that search perception into the perform of Stoicism. during this quantity, readers will locate Cynthia King’s translation of Musonius’ lectures, as recorded via his student Lucius; the sayings attributed to Musonius through historic writers; an trade of letters among Musonius and Apollonius of Tyana; and a letter from Musonius to Pankratides. This quantity additionally contains a preface by means of William B. Irvine, writer of A advisor TO the nice existence: the traditional artwork OF STOIC pleasure.
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These things include being jeered at, beaten, or spat upon, with assaults being the worst of these outrages. When they are whipped in public and revel in being whipped, Spartan boys make it clear that such things are neither shameful nor injurious. If a philosopher cannot scorn blows or jeering, he is useless, inasmuch as a philosopher must make it clear that he scorns even death. (2) "But, by Zeus, the person who does these things-who mocks and thinks that he is committing outrage by slapping, jeering, or doing some such thing-has hostile intent!
4) Socrates obviously refused to be upset when he was publicly ridiculed by Aristophanes; indeed, when Socrates met Aristophanes, he asked if Aristophanes would like to make other such use of him. 16. Chapter 19: about putting up with evil. Lectures · 51 unlikely that this man would have become angry if he had been the target of some minor slight, since he was not upset when he was ridiculed in the theater! Phocion the Good, so when his wife was insulted by someone, didn't even consider bringing charges against the insulter.
He means "the whole of the Semitic Near East between the Mediterranean and the Euphrates or the Syro-Arabian desert" (p. 2) and even Commagene. The province Syria was created by Pompey and kept being enlarged as the various client states in the region were taken over when their "kings" died. Client states which issued coins ("Herod and his successors, the Nabataeans, Commagene," p. 251) had rulers or kings. The last client king in this area was Rabbel II of the Nabataeans who died in AD 106 (p.