The Daily Stoic · 2026-07-18 · 65 min · 12,282 words

The Fall Of The Roman Republic Was A Warning | Barry Strauss

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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. Hey, it's Ryan. Welcome back to another episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast. So whole family just got back from Rome.

We spent about two weeks in Italy. We were in Rome and we were in Sorrento, we were in Capri and Ischia, but but the chunk of the trip, the big chunk of the trip, the trip I was excited about, that my two boys were excited about was was the Rome part. We did Greece last year, we did Rome this year. I'll get into all that in another episode. But

The thing about Rome is not that it feels ancient. It doesn't. It feels familiar. It's timely and timeless, right? A republic, it becomes powerful, becomes wealthy, becomes successful.

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