825. Dionysius the Renegade

from Stoic Meditations · host Massimo Pigliucci

Cicero tells the story of how Dionysius quit Stoicism because he was experiencing chronic pain, and how Cleanthes, the second head of the Stoa, chastised him for not understanding the Stoic take on the issue.

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