Travels with Epicurus a journey to a Greek island in search of a fulfilled life
Describes how the author journeyed to Greece with a suitcase full of philosophy books in order to learn how to achieve a fulfilling old age, explaining how he came to regard old age as a life stage filled with simple and heady pleasures.
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New York :
Penguin Books,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Table at Dimitri's Taverna : on seeking a philosophy of old age
- Old Greek's olive trees : on Epicurus's philosophy of fulfillment
- Deserted terrace : on time and worry beads
- Tasso's rain-spattered photographs : on solitary reflection
- Sirocco of youth's beauty : on existential authenticity
- Tintinnabulation of sheep bells : on mellowing to metaphysics
- Iphigenia's guest : on stoicism and old old age
- Burning boat in Kamini Harbor : on the timeliness of spirituality
- Returning home : on a mindful old age.
