How to Cope
An Ancient Guide to Enduring Hardship
$29.66
- Hardcover
288 pages
- Release Date
31 January 2026
Summary
What do you do when your life has fallen apart? Fifteen hundred years ago, a Roman nobleman named Boethius (ca. 480-524 CE) asked this question as he was sitting in a prison cell waiting to die, accused probably unjustly of treason. Boethius had been a rich and powerful man with all a person could want in life, but now he had lost everything. Shaken, he wondered how such terrible misfortune could have happened to him and why life was so unfair. When Philosophy herself appears in his cell and …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691259161 |
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| ISBN-10: | 069125916X |
| Author: | Philip Freeman, Boethius |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 31 January 2026 |
| Weight: | 338g |
| Dimensions: | 33mm x 193mm x 125mm |
| Series: | Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers |
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“Wisdom for the ages… . [and] a clear introduction to a way of finding faith in cosmic concord during times of strife.” * Kirkus Reviews *
About The Author
Philip Freeman
Boethius (ca. 480-524 CE) was a Roman philosopher and statesman who lived under the rule of the Ostrogoths after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Accused of treason, he was imprisoned around 523 and tortured and executed in 524. He wrote The Consolation of Philosophy while in prison awaiting his fate.
Philip Freeman is the author of more than thirty books on the ancient world, including Julian: Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor and Searching for Sappho: The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet. His other books include six previous volumes in Princeton’s Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers series, How to Tell a Story, How to Think about God, How to Be a Friend, How to Grow Old, How to Run a Country, and How to Win an Election. He holds the Fletcher Jones Chair in Humanities at Pepperdine University.
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