Andrew Schulz

There was a big long building that was like a colonnaded, sort of that typical Greek column style building.

two stories deep.

It had this open space at the bottom, open space at the top, and then like cubbies, almost rooms in the back where little markets would be.

And people would hang out underneath that colonnaded area.

And it's funny, there was a group of philosophers there that would always gather in one of the corners and like that, that little gang of philosophers grew so big and people didn't really want to be around them.

So, and that building's called the Stoa.

So those people hung out there so much that the Athenians started calling them the Stoics.

And that's where the, that's where the term Stoic philosophy came from.

Not because they named themselves that, or that's the name of their philosophy, but the philosophers who believed what we call Stoic philosophy hung out in the Stoa.

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So much of it goes back to Greece.

And, um, and so the Greeks knew that the, uh, so like Pericles, he's one of the greatest political, uh, leaders of all time.

Uh, he's basically known as like the greatest Athenian.

And, uh,

And he is going to use...

I believe he wants to build a new temple on the Acropolis of Athens, which is Parthenon.

If you guys have ever been to Athens, I'm sure you've seen photos of Parthenon.

He wants to build this, and he's essentially giving this speech.

He's like, all right, guys, I got this new project that I want to build.