Tad Brennan grew up around Washington DC and left as soon as he could. He moved to Oregon where the trees were taller and the people more interesting. He fell in love with his future wife, Liz Karns, and the two of them wound up going to Reed College, where he studied Classics and Philosophy. After a few years in Princeton, where he got a PhD in Classical Philosophy, they moved to Delaware, then to London, England (where their daughter Alexandra was born), then Oregon again (where their son Lincoln was born), then Connecticut, then Illinois, and now Ithaca New York. 

Tad enjoys bicycling, singing, and reading old books. He has ridden 14-15 times in Ithaca’s own STAP AIDS Ride, in which riders bike 100 miles around Cayuga Lake to raise money for the local AIDS charity. He has sung in various church-choirs over the years, and will also sing pop songs if you encourage him (his children advise you not to). His taste in old books runs towards very, very old books, written in Greek and Latin, which sometimes inspire him to write new books. He wrote “Ethics and Epistemology in Sextus Empiricus” (1999) and “The Stoic Life” (2005). He is not a vegetarian, but he avoids eating animals with more than four legs or fewer than two.