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. 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. 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. Every example in these pages, from slaves to emperors, is designed to help the reader apply philosophy in their own lives. -- adapted from publisher info

Maps on endsheets.

Zeno the prophet --Cheanthes the apostle -- Aristo the challenger -- Chrysippus the fighter -- Zeno the maintainer -- Diogenes the diplomat -- Antipater the ethicist -- Panaetius the connector -- Publius Rutilius Rufus the last honest man -- Posidonius the genius -- Diotimus the vicious -- Cicero the fellow traveler -- Cato the Younger, Rome's iron man -- Porcia Cato the iron woman -- Athenodorus Cananites the kingmaker -- Arius Didymus the kingmaker II -- Agrippinus the different -- Seneca the striver -- Cornutus the common -- Gaius Rubellius Plautus the man who would not be king -- Thrasea the fearless -- Helvidius Pricus the senator -- Musonius Rufus the unbreakable -- Epictetus the free man -- Junius Rusticus the dutiful -- Marcus Aurelius the philosopher king.