Track · Antiquity
The school that built
every other.
Eight months of antique thought, structured the way it was meant to be taught — not chronologically, but as a movement from question to method to discipline to consolation.
What you will study
01 · The Question
Pre-Socratics and Sophists. Why the world stopped being myth and started being a problem.
02 · Maieutics
Socrates. The method of bringing thought to birth through relentless questioning. Why he died for it.
03 · The Forms
Plato. The cave, the divided line, the ideal city. What it means that the world we see is the shadow of another.
04 · The Good Life
Aristotle. Virtue ethics, the doctrine of the mean, eudaimonia. The first philosopher who took ordinary life seriously.
05 · The Cosmos Unchained
Epicureans and Atomists. Pleasure as a serious project. Why fearing the gods is a category mistake.
06 · What Is Up to You
Early Stoa: Zeno, Cleanthes, Chrysippus. The dichotomy of control before it was a self-help phrase.
07 · Under the Empire
Late Stoa: Seneca, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius. Philosophy written from a slave's bench and an emperor's tent.
08 · The Edge
Skeptics, Cynics, Neoplatonists. The end of antiquity and the seed of what came next.
Antique practices
EPICTETUS-A-DAY (Ephemeris)
Each morning, one short practice in the manner of the Enchiridion. Three minutes. One decision.
PLATONIC DIALOGUE (Maieutics)
Take a thesis from the course. The AI takes the side of a sophist. Eight rounds. You leave with a thesis that has survived.
AGORA SIMULATOR (Gymnasium)
A modern situation. Two schools argue it through — Stoics versus Epicureans, Plato versus Aristotle, Seneca versus Cato. You are the third voice.
SENECA LETTERS (Epistolae)
Once a week — an AI-written letter in the style and logic of Seneca's Letters to Lucilius. Addressed to a situation you describe.
MARCUS REVIEW (Triumphus)
End of week: an honest audit of your week, in the manner of Meditations. The AI plays a strict judge, not a coach.
"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one."