Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Politics & Social Sciences

Short biographies of the Stoic philosophers, from Zeno, Cleanthes and Chrysippus to Cato, Seneca, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius. Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman show how each figure tried to live out the philosophy's virtues of courage, justice, temperance and wisdom in real life, through war, exile, slavery, politics and power, and what their successes and failures can teach readers today.