Holiday and Hanselman present the ... lives of the men and women who
strove to live by the timeless Stoic virtues of courage, justice,
temperance, [and] wisdom. Organized in digestible, mini-biographies of all
the well-known--and not so well-known--Stoics, this book ... 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--