Eugenia Manolidou: Disrupting Me Stoically

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Eugenia Manolidou: Disrupting Me Stoically

Audio excerpt from Ancient Philosophy for Modern Leadership Virtual Conference

The Plato's Academy Centre

Jan 10, 2023

This episode features Eugenia Manolidou, Head of Studies at Elliniki Agogi, School of Ancient Greek. This is an audio excerpt from Eugenia’s talk titled "Disrupting me Stoically" at the Plato’s Academy Centre virtual conference “Ancient Philosophy for Modern Leadership”.

Highlights

How Eugenia became interested in the practical value of philosophy
How Plutarch’s On Tranquillity of Mind helped her
The Greek concept of euthymia in Seneca’s On Tranquillity
Christianity and Stoicism
Why “successful” people are sometimes still unfulfilled at the end of their lives
Taking charge of Elliniki Agogi — adopting a new perspective on teaching Greek
What it means to “Stoically disrupt” and reinvent oneself

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