In a message dated 99-10-05 13:02:50 EDT, you write:
<< In the class I currently teach on Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages,
one of my students wants to write a brief paper on Stoic influence on the
Rule
of Benedict. >>
Other than a similar willingness to endure the 'slings and arrows of
outrageous fortune' with equanimity I can't think of two life styles more
dissimilar than stoic and benedictine.
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