Live of the stoics

“The Stoics were more than just thinkers. They were athletes and generáis and emperors and husbands and daughters and parents.This ¡s a wonderful book that shows you the lives of the philosophers whose words have shaped the world.” the story of Stoicism is the story of triumph over adversity. From Zeno’s conversión to philosophy in a bookshop in Athens after losing a fortune in business to the emperor Marcus Aurelius’s overcoming obstacles and ill health, each of the twenty-six figures in this book was put to the test. For two thousand years, from Seneca to Epictetus, the Stoics have been teaching us on the battlefield, in business, in politics, and at home by both word and deed. This book has one aim: to inspire you with the Stoics’ greatness and to warn you of their mistakes, so that philosophy might turn you into the kind of person you were always meant to be.