Video: Don Robertson on Marcus Aurelius
Meet the Greco-Romans, episode 7
Welcome to the seventh of an occasional series of video chats with authors and translators who have written about the philosophy, culture, and history of the Greco-Roman tradition.
In this episode I talk to Don Robertson, one of the most popular and thoughtful contemporary writers about Stoicism. Don is a cognitive-behavioural psychotherapist and trainer. He is one of the founding members of the Modern Stoicism nonprofit, and the founder and president of the Plato’s Academy Centre nonprofit in Athens, Greece. Donald specializes in teaching evidence-based psychological skills, and is an expert on the relationship between modern evidence-based psychotherapy and classical Greek and Roman philosophy. His work is highly interdisciplinary, combining philosophy, history, and psychology.
Among his books are: How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius; Stoicism and the Art of Happiness; The Philosophy of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: Stoic Philosophy as Rational and Cognitive Psychotherapy; and Verissimus: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius. In this video Don and I chat about his latest, Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor.
Enjoy our conversation!
