Local Talk Tomorrow - Epictetus, Slavery, Stoicism, and the Roman Empire

If you're in the greater Milwaukee area, and you'd like to learn more about a great Stoic philosopher, I'll be giving a talk for the general public at the Frank Weyenberg Library, "Epictetus, Slavery, Stoicism, and the Roman Empire" - 6:00 PM, Tuesday, February 5.  Here's the Facebook event page.

This talk kicks off the fourth year for the Philosophers in the Midst of History series, an invited series of quarterly talks hosted by the Frank Weyenberg.  Each year, I give one talk on an ancient philosopher, one on a medieval, one on an early modern, and a last one on a late modern philosopher.  We focus not only on the thinker and his or her works and thought, but also on their historical context, influences, and legacy.

We videorecord these sessions, so if you'd like to see any of the other twelve, on thinkers from Plato to Hannah Arendt, click here.

If you haven't already read him, and you're looking for reading suggestions on Epictetus, what you want to get your hands on is his Discourses.