Includes bibliographical referenes (p. 229-232) and index.

A cosmic spider's web : the stoic cosmos -- Pulled by the hair : how knowledge is possible -- Virtue and invincibility -- No place to shit : the good and conveniences -- Canonical stoic view of indifferents -- Living in agreement with nature -- Homologia : growing toward the good -- Fate and the lazy argument -- On dry ground : stoic apatheia -- Javelin-throwing : rules of right conduct -- Stoic paradoxes : the stoic lapith -- Useless weapons : knowing oneself -- The stoic progressor -- Stoic cosmopolitanism : standing naked before all -- The good life -- The strong odor of truth -- Freedom : leveling fortune -- Lifting the stone of ajax -- A complete life and a good death -- Oikeiosis : securing one's own in the footrace of life -- Authenticity : living with one's door open -- Virtue as peak-performance -- The invincible apprentice -- Invincibility as cosmic integration -- Equanimity in adversity -- Inconveniences : storm-clouds at sea -- Tela fortunae and life on the Dead Sea -- The troubled sleep of the fearful -- Bravery in bedclothes -- Pain: wiping a runny nose -- Anger and the baying of small dogs -- Grief and the broken crystal goblet -- Foulest death vs. fairest servitude -- Bugbears : removing the mask of ignorance -- Equanimity in prosperity -- Gain and the gold-leaf life -- Benefaction: the cornerstone of justice -- Bacchanalian revelry : birds of the night -- Gormandizing and the soft life -- In the footsteps of hercules -- Books and scholarly self-indulgence -- Friendship and self-sufficiency -- Rest and restlessness : Addamus Calcar! -- Rest and retirement : benefiting others -- The heroic course -- Hercules at a crossroads -- The athletic paradigm : winning by endurance -- What would socrates have done? -- Education : saving the shipwrecked mariners -- Teacher as physician : towering above fortune -- Stoic curatives -- Epistemological curatives -- Ethical curatives -- Signs of progress : the contest is now.