Reading Lists
The following lists include those used in the SES course and Supplemental Reading that may be recommended by your Mentor. Each list may include links to Amazon if you wish to purchase a title under a suggested edition. Lists may also contain links to free files and information.
- J. Sellars, Stoicism (University of California Press, 2006). (Amazon)
- The Three Romans:
The editions listed below are suggestions. Other editions may be used for the course.
Seneca, Letters from a Stoic (Penguin Classics, 1969) (Amazon)
Arrian, The Discourses of Epictetus (Penguin Classics, 2008) (Amazon)
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations(Penguin Classics, 2006) (Amazon) - E. Wiegardt, The Mneme Manual
- A. A. Long, Hellenistic Philosophy, 2nd ed. (University of California Press, 1986). (Amazon)
- Pierre Hadot, The Inner Citadel (Harvard, 1998)
- L. Edelstein, The Meaning of Stoicism (Harvard, 1966). OUT OF PRINT (Amazon)
- L. Becker, A New Stoicism (Princeton, 1998). (Amazon)
- T. M. Robinson, Heraclitus Fragments, (University of Toronto Press, 1987) (Amazon)
- John B. Brown, The Conscious Cosmos, (an essay on PDF file, 2010) (available here)
Stacks
The stacks hold books of general interest to those in the college. Most are links to online PDF, and the size of the file is noted. To better use the stack, right-click the link and save it to your computer.
Stoic e-books
All of these e-Books were written by Erik Wiegardt, Scholarch of the College of Stoic Philosophers. They may be read and quoted without cost or obligation, except that they may not be used for commercial purposes.
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Note: The links to Amazon are for your convenience only. You are not required to purchase your books from Amazon.
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