Bridgetown2026-09-16T12:15:03-05:00https://becomingstoic.co/recordings/feed.xmlA publication and a real reading club. Twelve-week seasons on one primary text: a passage due every Sunday, an essay every Tuesday, and a recorded discussion every Friday.2026-07-24T00:00:00-05:002026-07-24T00:00:00-05:00repo://recordings.collection/_recordings/2026-07-24-the-slave-and-the-emperor.md<p>The longest discussion of the season so far, and the one where the disagreement was sharpest. Whether the shared conclusions vindicate the philosophy or merely show how little it asks of the powerful is left unresolved on purpose.</p>2026-07-31T00:00:00-05:002026-07-31T00:00:00-05:00repo://recordings.collection/_recordings/2026-07-31-where-seneca-actually-lived.md<p>A short film made on location in Campania, at the places Seneca describes from his own windows. Letter 56, on the noise above the bathhouse, was written somewhere within a few hundred metres of the opening shot.</p>2026-08-05T00:00:00-05:002026-08-05T00:00:00-05:00repo://recordings.collection/_recordings/2026-08-05-meditations-book-iv-read-aloud.md<p>The whole of Book IV, unabridged. Long’s 1862 translation, read at a pace meant for following along in the text rather than for listening on a commute.</p>2026-08-07T00:00:00-05:002026-08-07T00:00:00-05:00repo://recordings.collection/_recordings/2026-08-07-on-not-needing-an-audience.md<p>Recorded live on Friday with questions from the week’s readers. We spend most of the hour on IV.17 and the two passages either side of it, which nobody quotes and which change the reading considerably.</p>