How to Have Willpower: An Ancient Guide to Not Giving In

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How to Have Willpower: An Ancient Guide to Not Giving InAncient Wisdom for Modern Readers Lively new translations of two classical works that offer wise advice about how to resist temptation. How to Have Willpower brings together two profound ancient meditations on how to overcome pressures that encourage us to act against our own best interestsPlutarchs essay On Dysopia or How to Resist Pressure and Prudentiuss poetic allegory Psychomachia or How to Slay Your Demons. Challenging the idea that humans are

for noble Trojans

decline from the golden age

one-eyed Cyclops

from how to deploy onions to cure baldness and cabbage to get sober to whether lentils are healthy and why arugula increases your sex drive

who advocates transcendence through spiritual love

religious beliefs and traditions

327a to 332b

At the end of the book is a complete alphabetical vocabulary list

and the A-Level (Group 2) prescription of sections 100–119

The meticulous commentary and full vocabulary

Antiquity’s most influential account of life’s Supreme Good

with a detailed introduction that also covers the prescribed material to be read in English for A Level