A Guide to the Good Life : The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy (34 page)

Long, A. A.
Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life
. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002.

Lutz, Cora. Introduction to “Musonius Rufus: ‘The Roman Socrates.’”
Yale Classical Studies
. Vol. 10. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1947.

Marcus Aurelius.
Meditations
. Translated by Maxwell Staniforth. London: Penguin, 1964.

Marrou, H. I.
A History of Education in Antiquity
. Translated by George Lamb. New York: New American Library, 1956.

Musonius Rufus. “The Lectures.” In
The Lectures and Sayings of Musonius Rufus
. Translated by Cynthia King. Edited by William B. Irvine. Unpublished manuscript, 2007.

———. “The Sayings.” In
The Lectures and Sayings of Musonius Rufus
. Translated by Cynthia King. Edited by William B. Irvine. Unpublished manuscript, 2007.

Navia, Luis E.
Socrates: The Man and His Philosophy
. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1985.

Nussbaum, Martha C.
The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics
. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.

Plato.
Plato’s Republic
. Translated by G. M. A. Grube. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1974.

Plutarch. “Cato the Younger.” In
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
. Translated by John Dryden. Revised by Arthur Hugh Clough. New York: Modern Library, 1932.

———. “How a Man May Become Aware of His Progress in Virtue.” In
Plutarch’s Moralia
. Vol. 1. Translated by Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1927.

Price, Simon.
Religions of the Ancient Greeks
. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Richardson, Robert D. “A Perfect Piece of Stoicism.”
Thoreau Society Bulletin
, no. 153 (Fall 1980): 1–5.

Schopenhauer, Arthur.
The World as Will and Representation
. 3 vols. Translated by E. F. J. Payne. New York: Dover, 1969.

Seneca.
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales
. Translated by Richard M. Gummere. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967.

———. “On Anger.” In
Moral and Political Essays
. Translated by John M. Cooper and J. F. Procopé. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

———. “On Firmness.” In
Seneca: Moral Essays
. Vol. 1. Translated by John W. Basore. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1928.

———. “On Providence.” In
Seneca: Moral Essays
. Vol. 1. Translated by John W. Basore. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1928.

———. “On the Happy Life.” In
Seneca: Moral Essays
. Vol. 2. Translated by John W. Basore. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1932.

———. “On Tranquillity of Mind.” In
Seneca: Moral Essays
. Vol. 2. Translated by John W. Basore. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1932.

———. “To Helvia on Consolation.” In
Seneca: Moral Essays
. Vol. 2. Translated by John W. Basore. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1932.

———. “To Marcia on Consolation.” In
Seneca: Moral Essays
. Vol. 2. Translated by John W. Basore. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1932.

———. “To Polybius on Consolation.” In
Seneca: Moral Essays
. Vol. 2. Translated by John W. Basore. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1932.

Sommers, Christina Hoff, and Sally Satel.
One Nation under Therapy: How the Helping Culture Is Eroding Self-Reliance
. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2005.

Stockdale, James Bond.
Courage under Fire: Testing Epictetus’s Doctrines in a Laboratory of Human Behavior
. Palo Alto, CA: Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 1993.

Strabo.
The Geography of Strabo
. Vol. 5. Translated by Horace Leonard Jones. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1928.

Tacitus.
The Annals
. Vol. 4. Translated by John Jackson. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1937.

Thoreau, Henry D. “Walden.” In
Thoreau: Walden and Other Writings
. New York: Bantam, 1962.

Veyne, Paul.
Seneca: The Life of a Stoic
. Translated by David Sullivan. New York: Routledge, 2003.

Aberfan landslide,
215
,
217

Academic school: history of,
18
,
25

influence of, on Stoicism,
25
,
27
,
32
,
41

philosophy advocated by,
20

Academy.
See
Academic school

adaptation.
See
hedonic adaptation

age.
See
old age

Agrippina,
46
,
47

Alexander the Great,
21

Anaxagoras,
18

Anaximander,
17

Anaximenes,
18

anger: apologizing for outbreaks of,
164

author’s attempts to deal with,
256
–59,
274

can lie dormant,
256

feels good to vent,
256
–57

feigned,
161

harm done by,
159
–60,
162
,
256
,
257

overcoming,
162
,
163
–64

people who savor,
164
–65

preventing,
161
–62,
258
–59

and projective visualization,
79

that is unnoticed by its target,
257

Antisthenes,
3
,
18
,
20
,
30

Antoninus,
57

anxiety: caused by desire formation,
86
–87

caused by social relations,
128

evolutionary explanation of,
231
,
232
,
237

experienced by author,
275

is inevitable,
216

and negative visualization,
80

using intellect to overcome,
237

using Stoicism to overcome,
100
–101,
229
,
242
,
253
,
262

using Xanax to overcome,
241
–42

and voluntary discomfort,
112

Apollonius of Chalcedon,
56

apologies,
164
,
274

Archelaus,
18

Aristippus,
4
,
18

Aristotle,
21
,
26
,
33

Arrian,
39

asceticism: of the Cynics,
4
,
30

not practiced by the Stoics,
27
,
33
,
46
,
180
,
227
,
243

aspirin,
239
–41

aversions,
91

Avidius Cassius,
59

banishment.
See
exile

banjo recital,
261
–62

Barea Soranus,
183
,
199

Becker, Lawrence C.,
35

Buddha,
17
,
37

Buddhism: author’s attraction to,
6
–7,
248

and impermanence,
6
,
83

and the importance of living in the moment,
107

and mastery of desire,
6

practice of,
11
–12,
120

role of analysis in,
7
,
229

on sexual relations,
139
–40

and Stoicism, similarities between,
6
–7,
37
,
83
,
107
,
139
–40,
163
–64,
181

technique of, for determining the true value of things,
139
–40

thought-substitution technique of,
163
–64

and tranquility as a goal,
7

and wealth,
181

butterflies,
260
–62

Cassius Dio,
59

catastrophes: as an alternative to negative visualization,
75
–76

Stoic response to,
184
,
205

transformational power of,
75
–76

Cato (the Younger): on the disdain of others,
169
,
265

his death,
199
,
200

his response to insults,
147
,
149
,
162

his sense of duty,
36

his Stoicism,
8

and internalization of goals,
100

character: cannot be taken from us,
185
–86,
205

impaired by luxurious living,
177
–78,
181
,
182

importance of, to Stoics,
263

our control over,
92
–93

and pursuit of wealth,
178
–79

Christianity: compatibility of, with Stoicism,
12

and decline of Stoicism,
210

Chrysippus: his life,
283

his Stoic school,
38

his writings,
45

on negative visualization,
68

Cicero,
19

Clarke, M. L,
209

Claudius,
45
–46

Cleanthes,
38
,
41
,
199
,
283

clinging to things: Buddhist views regarding,
181

and negative visualization,
81
–82,
252
,
275

Stoic views regarding,
27
,
82
–83,
115
,
180
–81,
205
,
227

clothing,
176
,
178
,
264
,
265

Columbine shooting,
215

comfort.
See
discomfort

connoisseurs,
175
,
205
,
273

Constantine,
60

contentment.
See
satisfaction

control: dichotomy of,
86
–89

and fame,
168

and fatalism,
107

Stoic views regarding,
11
,
12
,
93
–95

trichotomy of,
89
–95,
97
,
100
–101,
229
,
252
–53.
See also
triage

cooking vessels,
177

Cornelius Fronto,
56

Cornford, Francis MacDonald,
19

courage,
112
,
116
,
178
,
185

Crates: his Cynic school,
25

his relationship with Zeno,
25
,
29
,
32