Did he really? How odd. I thought Holiday was pretty on board with him being pantheist/monist ie the Roman gods were aspects of the logos/cosmos/nature as a singular thing but not a personal god. Epictetus sails closest to the personal god imho.
He draws heavily from Meditations which is more polytheist, but lbr the man doesn't care. He repackaged stoicism to sell to people who aren't interested in it. He can't sell to his Christian American audience without pretending it's monotheistic.
Fair enough. I haven't read much Holiday, it would by hard to maintain that belief having read a) the sources b) the scholarship. Money though, always motivating.
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