Forget trends. These Stoic books deliver timeless tools for clarity, control, and resilience when the world feels too loud to ...

Epictetus Robin Waterfield The Complete Works Handbook, Discourses, And Fragments ( 2022) ... this book collects the complete works of Epictetus, bringing to modern readers his insights on how to cope ...

For over a decade, an unexpected presence has graced the new release tables at bookstores: Stoic philosophers.Popular books like How to Be a Stoic by Massimo Pigliucci and Lessons in Stoicism by John ...

A new book by Susannah Gibson spotlights the 18th-century Bluestockings, who aspired to have their writings and ideas accorded the same respect as men’s.

In the mid-’90s, not long after I graduated from college, a friend insisted I read “The Manual,” by the Roman Stoic philosopher Epictetus.For an ungainly introvert like myself, the book’s ...

Epictetus laid out this dichotomy in the opening sentence of The Enchiridion, a collection of his core teachings compiled by his student Arrian: “Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, ...

Early lessons In Meditations, Marcus Aurelius thanks his teacher Quintus Junius Rusticus for introducing him to the work of Stoic Epictetus, shown here in an illustration, who died around A.D. 135 ...

Illustration of Epictetus, with lamp and crutch, in Edward Ivie’s 1715 Latin translation of the Enchiridion. Wikimedia Commons/William Sonmans/Public domain Stoic philosophy has exerted an ...

Illustration of Epictetus, with lamp and crutch, in Edward Ivie’s 1715 Latin translation of the Enchiridion. Wikimedia Commons/William Sonmans/Public domain Stoic philosophy has exerted an ...

T he first-century Stoic philosopher and teacher Epictetus was an enslaved person who succeeded in getting an education and, eventually, his freedom. Images of freedom, slavery and self-belonging ...