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

by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman

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Holiday and Hanselman narrate the lives of twenty-six Stoic philosophers from Zeno of Citium to Marcus Aurelius, showing Stoicism as a lived practice shaped by exile, politics, and empire. The book draws on the primary Stoic texts alongside Diogenes Laertius and modern scholarship to unite its figures around the cardinal virtues of courage, temperance, justice, and wisdom.

Published:: 2020
Pages:: 352

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In this collection, Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius references 4 other books.

It draws on Meditations, Letters from a Stoic and The Daily Stoic.

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Marcus Aurelius's Meditations is a principal primary source; the book culminates with his biography and quotes extensively from his personal journal

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Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

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Seneca's Moral Letters to Lucilius are central to the biographical chapter on Seneca and quoted throughout

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Letters from a Stoic

by Seneca

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Co-authored with Hanselman as a companion volume to The Daily Stoic, sharing its source base of Epictetus, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius

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The Daily Stoic

by Ryan Holiday

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Direct extension of Holiday's Stoic project begun in The Obstacle Is the Way, applying the same primary sources to biographical narrative

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The Obstacle Is the Way

by Ryan Holiday

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