Guide to Stoicism

Stoicism isn't a distant academic exercise. It's a toolkit for living. This guide traces the philosophy from its founding in Athens, where Zeno of Citium began teaching in the Stoa Poikile at age forty, through its development by Cleanthes and Chrysippus, down to its most famous Roman practitioners: Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius. Stock presents Stoicism not as a relic but as a living practice, one that asks a single radical question: what can you control, and what must you release? The answer, as this book reveals, is the foundation of tranquility. For anyone who has ever lain awake at night anxious about things beyond their reach, Stoicism teaches that freedom lies not in mastering external circumstances but in mastering your response to them.