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Instant New York Times Advice & Business Bestseller, USA Today Bestseller, and Wall Street Journal #1 Bestseller!A New York Times Noteworthy Pick and a "stellar work" by Publishers WeeklyFrom 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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The Lives of the Stoics is the latest installment in Mr. Holiday’s popularization of the Stoic philosophy. It consists of 26 short “biographies” of major and minor Stoic figures. It is an ambitious project, but it is poorly executed in many ways.1/ the author states that the purpose of the book is to inspire the reader to emulate the lives of the Stoics. “Strict scholarly accuracy” is not his concern. The result is a speculative biography about each figure, especially those about whom little written material survives. As any biographer will tell you, speculative biography is the least reliable and the most likely to lend itself to authorial invention and (mis)interpretation.2/ the convention of giving each figure an epithet (e.g. Zeno the Prophet) is a little too contrived and frankly comes across as precious and forced. Not only is not accurate historically (Zeno was never called the Prophet, Seneca was never called the Striver), but it often fails miserably - specifically “Gaius Rubellius Plautus the Man Who Would Not Be King.” This literary contrivance sounds like a teenager’s fantasy WWE game.3/ the author fails to be consistent in his use of political terms for the ancient world. He uses kings, rulers, tyrants, dictators, and emperors all interchangeably when describing the Roman Emperor (except when he talks about Marcus Aurelius, who, in his eyes, could do no wrong). This is just sloppy writing - the Romans were very clear about not having kings (during the Republic) and emperors were very different from kings.4/ the author is dire need of a better editor. A common stylistic choice he employs is to break up a quotation with the redundant “he writes,” or “he said,” or some other rendition. For example, from page 32, “ ‘We might ask,’ Chryssipus pressed, ‘how could we live a life if it didn’t matter to us whether we were well or sick...”. He often then add his own commentary onto the quotation, which comes across as pedantic and condescending. “Indeed, how could we? Life would be chaos.”5/ the author is in dire need of an editor, part two. The author spends so much time fleshing out each figure with suppositions and speculations that he repeats himself, and as a result, many of the figures appear to be the same because he is asking the same questions. I found myself re-writing many sentences in my head with fewer words, far too often. The constant sentence fragments. Single word sentences. Sloppy writing. Get my point? It made reading the book seem like a chore, rather than an exploration.6/ it is no surprise that the author’s training as a marketer influences how he writes. He has the habit of qualifying everything he likes with “beautiful,” “great,” “beloved,” and “wonderful.” The result is this reader felt like he was being drowned in sugar. My eyes rolled more times than some of the Stoics were probably rolling in their graves.7/ for an author who wrote a book called Ego is the Enemy, it is ironic that his author’s bio describes him as “one of the world’s foremost thinkers and writers on ancient philosophy and its place in everyday life.” Even more ironic given that his stated aim in the book is not “strict scholarly accuracy.”A five-star idea with a one-star execution. Go elsewhere for an introduction to the stoics.

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