A Happy Life: A Guide to Stoicism for the Modern Person

One of the most outstanding schools of ancient philosophy is rightfully considered to be Stoicism — a philosophical system that emerged in the 3rd-2nd centuries BC in Greece and was later adopted by Rome. The book is dedicated to the views of Epictetus, a Roman philosopher-slave, one of its most prominent representatives. The author, an American philosopher, biologist, and publicist, uses the few but famous works of this thinker and attempts to reconstruct his worldview, relying on contemporary language, modern stylistics, and current narratives — making the once outstanding Stoic doctrine accessible and appealing to the 21st-century reader.