"To relax the mind is to lose it." Stoic Six Pack 2 brings together six more essential texts for students of Consolations From A Stoic by Seneca On The Shortness of Life by Seneca Lectures and Fragments of Musonius Rufus Ethical Fragments by Hierocles Meditations In Verse by Marcus Aurelius and James Blake The Stoics by Diogenes Laërtius In addition to these six books there is *Two image galleries. *Seneca the Stoic – a biographical essay. Each work has been newly revised, edited and curated for the digital age. There is a complete Musonius Rufus and the rarely published Stoic Hierocles . Consolations From A Stoic contains all three of Seneca’s consolations – To Marcia, To Helvia and To Polybius . On The Shortness of Life also by Seneca is presented in a brand new translation by author Damian Stevenson. The Stoics by Diogenes Laërtius is a fascinating 3rd century biography of the first Greek Stoics – Zeno of Citium, Dinoysius the Renegade, Chrysippus of Soli et al and there is also Meditations In Verse, an interesting Victorian poetic homage to Aurelius. Stoic Six Pack 2 is an amazing collection of masterworks and rarities, a must-read for fans of Meditations, Letters From A Stoic and Stoic philosophy in general.
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus (often referred to as "the wise") was Emperor of the Roman Empire from 161 to his death in 180. He was the last of the "Five Good Emperors", and is also considered one of the more important Stoic philosophers. His two decades as emperor were marked by near continual warfare. He was faced with a series of invasions from German tribes, and by conflicts with the Parthian Empire in the east. His reign also had to deal with an internal revolt in the east, led by Avidius Cassius. Marcus Aurelius' work Meditations, written in Greek while on campaign between 170 and 180, is still revered as a literary monument to a government of service and duty and has been praised for its "exquisite accent and its infinite tenderness."
