Rich Roll & Ryan Holiday on The Odyssey’s Biggest Moral Questions

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 to another episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast. Look, what I love is when ancient ideas sort of break containment and come back into the modern world.

I don't mean like retrograde, bad, antiquated, anachronistic things. I mean when elements of what they would call the great conversation, that's what philosophy is, that's what ancient literature is sometimes referred to, ceases to be this thing that they used to do. And it it comes through not just to people like me or you that are listening to this podcast, but like mass culture. That's what I think so awesome about Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey. Whether you like the movie or not, the fact that you have an opinion about the movie, that the Odyssey is being talked about right now is fantastic.

It's how it was supposed to be. We don't talk enough about these ancient myths and stories, which aren't are are supposed to be living, evolving things, right? Every generation rediscovers, reinterprets, adds new takes and understanding of these ancient ideas, which is, by the way, what they were in the ancient world. You think about, by the time Marx Realius comes along, the Odyssey is

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