Cynthia Arrieu-King
Assistant professor at Stockton University and has been a featured poet at the Dodge Poetry Festival.
Cynthia Arrieu-King is an assistant professor at Stockton University and has been a featured poet at the Dodge Poetry Festival. A former Kundiman Fellow, Arrieu-King is the author of the poetry chapbook The Small Anything City (2006) and the full-length poetry collections People Are Tiny in Paintings of China (2010) and Manifest (2013). With Sophia Kartsonis, she coauthored the chapbook By Some Miracle a Year Lousy with Meteors (2013). She also co-wrote the collection Unlikely Conditions (1913 Press, 2016) with the late Hillary Gravendyk.
Philosopher's Notes on Cynthia Arrieu-King's Books
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Musonius Rufus
Musonius Rufus was one of the four great Roman Stoics. In fact, he was known as the “Roman Socrates.” To put him in historical context with the other three great Roman Stoics: He was born in AD 30, about 34 years after Seneca. He taught Epictetus (who was born in AD 55). Epictetus died in 135 but taught the guys who taught the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (who was born in AD 121) his Stoic philosophy—which is why Aurelius refers to him more than any other teacher in Meditations. Big Ideas we explore include: Theory vs. Practice (which is more important?), practicing philosophy (is where it's at!), vice vs. exile (free yourself from vice!), food (it's the medicine of life), and stoic love advice (competing in kindness).