Peak Stoic 09 - Friends

Issue 9 of Peak Stoic. A 30-day Stoic practice journal on friendship: choosing friends, being one, the company we keep, and keeping friendships alive. Each day gives you one passage from Seneca, Marcus Aurelius or Epictetus in a public-domain translation, checked word for word against the source, with a short note, a morning question, one practice to try, and a full page for the evening review.

Most passages come from Seneca’s letters to his friend Lucilius. Each week opens with a short essay and a worksheet: my friends honestly, being a friend, the company I keep, and a real letter to write and send. Three portraits of friendship: Laelius and Scipio, Marcus Aurelius and Fronto, and Arrian, who wrote down Epictetus’s words.

56 full-color, saddle-stitched pages that lie flat for writing, illustrated with photographs from Ephesus and Aphrodisias. A thoughtful gift for a friend. No earlier issues needed.