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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"--

 

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Table of Contents

Introduction ix

Zeno the Prophet

1 (12)

Cleanthes the Apostle

13 (14)

Aristo the Challenger

27 (12)

Chrysippus the Fighter

39 (12)

Zeno the Maintainer

51 (4)

Diogenes the Diplomat

55 (10)

Antipater the Ethicist

65 (10)

Panaetius the Connector

75 (14)

Publius Rutilius Rufus the Last Honest Man

89 (10)

Posidonius the Genius

99 (10)

Diotimus the Vicious

109 (6)

Cicero the Fellow Traveler

115 (20)

Cato the Younger, Rome's Iron Man

135 (18)

Porcia Cato the Iron Woman

153 (10)

Athenodorus Cananites the Kingmaker

163 (6)

Arius Didymus the Kingmaker II

169 (10)

Agrippinus the Different

179 (6)

Seneca the Striver

185 (24)

Cornutus the Common

209 (4)

Gaius Rubellius Plautus the Man Who Would Not Be King

213 (6)

Thrasea the Fearless

219 (10)

Helvidius Priscus the Senator

229 (8)

Musonius Rufus the Unbreakable

237 (14)

Epictetus the Free Man

251 (18)

Junius Rusticus the Dutiful

269 (10)

Marcus Aurelius the Philosopher King

279 (22)

Conclusion 301 (10)

Timeline of the Stoics and the Graeco-Roman World 311 (10)

Sources Consulted and Further Reading 321 (6)

Index of Stoics 327