The Series
Complete, fresh translations — never abridgments, never modernized Victorian English. Available now on Kindle.
Meditations
The private notebook of a Roman emperor — notes to himself, never meant for us. A complete new translation from the Greek that sounds the way it felt to write.
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The Philosopher of the Garden
Everything that survives of the most slandered philosopher in history: the letters, the doctrines, the fragments. Pleasure, it turns out, meant something quieter than you've heard.
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The Slave Philosopher
Born a slave, he taught emperors. The blunt classroom voice of Stoicism's greatest teacher, complete in one volume — handbook, discourses, and fragments.
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The Roman Socrates
The teacher of Epictetus, exiled three times for philosophy. His surviving lectures are Stoicism at its most practical: food, family, exile, and how to live with both hands.
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The Defense of Socrates
Charged with corrupting the young and dishonoring the gods, Socrates chose death over abandoning the examined life. Plato's four dialogues on the trial and death of the West's first philosopher — Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo — fresh from the Greek.
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Epicurus & the Epicureans
How to live without fear. A clear, quote-driven introduction to the most misunderstood school of ancient thought — from Epicurus's Garden to Lucretius's Rome — and what it still offers anyone trying to live well now.
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Moral Letters to Lucilius
All 124 letters — the greatest correspondence course in how to live ever written. Time, death, friendship, anger, wealth, the steadiness of the mind: the warmest and most quotable book in Stoicism, complete and fresh from the Latin.
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Nicomachean Ethics
The foundational book on how to live well — what happiness actually is, why character is built by habit, and how a good life is assembled choice by choice. Aristotle's masterwork, complete and fresh from the Greek in clear modern English.
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On the Nature of Things
A poem two thousand years old that already knew the universe was atoms and empty space, the mind mortal, and the fear of death the one thing worth curing. Lucretius's epic of science and serenity, in a new verse translation from the Latin.
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Confessions
The first true autobiography ever written: a restless, brilliant man arguing with God and with himself about desire, memory, time, and what he was made for. Complete and fresh from the Latin.
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Xenophon's Socrates
The other eyewitness. Before Plato turned him into a legend, Xenophon knew Socrates as a friend — and remembered a plainer, shrewder, more useful teacher. Memorabilia, Apology, and Symposium, fresh from the Greek.
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Characters
Thirty comic sketches of people you already know: the flatterer, the cheapskate, the man who will not stop talking. Aristotle's successor invented the character study — and it is still funny. Fresh from the Greek.
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Moral Essays
Five of Seneca's greatest essays, including On the Shortness of Life — the most famous twenty minutes in Stoic philosophy. Anger, grief, providence, mercy, and time, addressed to real people inside Nero's Rome. Complete and fresh from the Latin.
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