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  title info:
    title: Lives of the Stoics
    sub title: the art of living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius
  name:
    name part: Holiday, Ryan
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Hanselman, Stephen
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 329 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  note: Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman.
  note: Maps on endpapers.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-326) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Stoics
  classification: B528 .H66 2020
  classification: 188
  identifier: 9780525541875
  identifier: 052554187X
  identifier: 9780525541882
  identifier: 2020011797
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200309
    record change date: 20210125090820.0
    record identifier: in00004286347