Books Details
Author : Ryan Holiday Pages : pages Publisher : Penguin Audio Language : eng ISBN-
10 : B085Q1TRHC ISBN-13 :
Books Descriptions
FROM THE BEST-SELLING 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.'LIVES OF THE STOICS' is
more than a mere history book, every example, from Epictetus to Marcus Aurelius -
slaves to emperors - is designed to help the reader/listener 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,
