Prudentius: How to Have Willpower | Buch

Cover: 9780691220345 | How to Have Willpower | An Ancient Guide to Not Giving In | Buch

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Lively new translations of two classical works that offer wise advice about how to resist temptationHow to Have Willpower brings together two profound ancient meditations on how to overcome pressures that encourage us to act against our own best interests-Plutarch's essay On Dysopia or How to Resist Pressure and Prudentius's poetic allegory Psychomachia or How to Slay Your Demons. Challenging the idea that humans are helpless victims of vice, these works-introduced and presented in vivid, accessible new prose translations by Michael Fontaine, with the original Latin and Greek texts on facing pages-emphasize the power of personal choice and the possibility of personal growth, as they offer insights and practical advice about resisting temptation. In the spirit of the best ancient self-help writing, Plutarch, a pagan Greek philosopher and historian, offers a set of practical recommendations and steps we can take to resist pressure and to stop saying "yes" against our better judgment. And in a delightfully different work, Prudentius, a Latin Christian poet, dramatizes the necessity to actively fight temptation through the story of an epic battle within the human soul between fierce warrior women representing our virtues and vices. Plutarch and Prudentius insist that we allow pressure or temptations to get the best of us. But they also agree that we can do something about it. And their wisdom can help.

Über den Autor

Michael Fontaine is professor of classics at Cornell University. His books include four other volumes in the Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers series, How to Drink, How to Grieve, How to Tell a Joke, and How to Get Over a Breakup (all Princeton).

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2025
Fachbereich:	Populäre Darstellungen
Genre:	Importe , Philosophie
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
Reihe:	Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
Inhalt:	Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13:	9780691220345
ISBN-10:	0691220344
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Prudentius Plutarch
Hersteller:	Princeton Univers. Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	177 x 122 x 25 mm
Von/Mit:	Prudentius (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	12.08.2025
Gewicht:	0,246 kg