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From the bestselling authors of The Daily Stoic comes an inspiring
guide to the lives of the Stoics, and what the ancients can teach us
about happiness, success, resilience and virtue.
Nearly 2,300 years after a ruined merchant named Zeno first established
a school on the Stoa Poikile of Athens, Stoicism has found a new
audience among those who seek greatness, from athletes to politicians
and everyone in between. It's no wonder; the philosophy and its embrace
of self-mastery, virtue, and indifference to that which we cannot
control is as urgent today as it was in the chaos of the Roman Empire.
In Lives of the Stoics, Holiday and Hanselman present the fascinating
lives of the men and women who strove to live by the timeless Stoic
virtues of Courage. Justice. Temperance. Wisdom. Organized in
digestible, mini-biographies of all the well-known--and not so
well-known--Stoics, this book vividly brings home what Stoicism was like
for the people who loved it and lived it, dusting off powerful lessons
to be learned from their struggles and successes.
More than a mere history book, every example in these pages, from
Epictetus to Marcus Aurelius--slaves to emperors--is designed to help
the reader apply philosophy in their own lives. Holiday and Hanselman
unveil the core values and ideas that unite figures from Seneca to Cato
to Cicero across the centuries. Among them are the idea that self-rule
is the greatest empire, that character is fate; how Stoics benefit from
preparing not only for success, but failure; and learn to love, not
merely accept, the hand they are dealt in life. A treasure of valuable
insights and stories, this book can be visited again and again by any
reader in search of inspiration from the past.
