RESOURCES

This is an assortment of resources that we have tried to organize for newcomers. If you have any questions or feedback about these resources (or would like to suggest anything), feel free to contact us.

Stoicism Sites

The Stoic Fellowship

The Stoic Registry

Modern Stoicism

Stoicism Today Blog

How to be a Stoic (Massimo Pigliucci)

Donald Robertson

Daily Stoic (Ryan Holiday)

Stoics in Action

The Stoic Gym [home of THE STOIC Magazine] (Chuck Chakrapani)

Traditional Stoicism (Chris Fisher)

The Immoderate Stoic (Matt Van Natta)

Ancient Texts

Xenophon’s Conversations with Socrates (trans. H. Tredennick & R.H. Waterfield)

The Hellenistic Philosophers Vol. 1 (1987) (trans. A.A. Long & D.N. Sedley)

The Stoic Reader (2008) (trans. B. Inwood & L. Gerson) — a collection of material primarily on the early Greek Stoics

Lives of Eminent Philosophers (trans. P. Mensch) ; Public Domain Version: (trans. C.D. Yonge) — Books 7 contains an exposition on Stoic theory

Musonius Rufus’s Lectures and Sayings (trans. Cynthia King); Public Domain Version: (trans. C. Lutz)

Seneca’s Letters from a Stoic (trans. Robin Campbell); Public Domain Version: (trans. Gummere)

Seneca’s Complete Works [in Seven Volumes] published by Chicago University Press

Epictetus’ Complete Works: Handbook, Discourses, and Fragments (trans. Robin Waterfield)

[Other translations of the Discourses and Enchiridion by Robert Dobbin, Robin Hard, and Nicholas White; a complete public domain version is translated by W.A. Oldfather]

Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations (trans. M. Hammond); Public Domain Version: (trans. G. Long)

[Other translations of the Meditations by Robin Hard and Gregory Hays]

Modern Works

* = INTRODUCTORY

Pierre Hadot’s The Inner Citadel (1989)

James Stockdale’s Courage Under Fire (1993)

A.A. Long’s Stoic Studies (1996)

Tad Brennan’s The Stoic Life (2005)

Brad Inwood’s (ed.) Cambridge Companion to the Stoics (2006)

John Sellar’s Stoicism (2006) *

Margaret Graver’s Stoicism and Emotion (2007)

William Irvine’s A Guide to the Good Life (2008) *

Donald Robertson’s Stoicism and the Art of Happiness (2013) *

Brian E. Johnson’s The Role Ethics of Epictetus (2014)

Ryan Holiday’s The Daily Stoic (2016)

Lawrence Becker’s A New Stoicism (Revised Edition) (2017)

Liz Gloyn’s The Ethics of the Family in Seneca (2017)

Massimo Pigliucci’s How to be a Stoic (2018) *

Ward Farnsworth’s The Practicing Stoic (2018) *

Donald Robertson’s How to Think Like a Roman Emperor (2019) *

Pigliucci’s & Lopez’s Handbook for New Stoics (2019)

David Fideler’s Breakfast with Seneca (2022) *

Stoic Podcasts

Massimo Pigliucci’s Stoic Meditations

Ryan Holiday’s The Daily Stoic

Simon Drew’s The Practical Stoic

Matt van Natta’s Good Fortune

[and many more I’m sure]