Michael Fontaine is professor of classics at Cornell University. His books include four other volumes in the Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers series, How to Drink, How to Grieve, How to Tell a Joke, and How to Get Over a Breakup (all Princeton).

"Fascinating and so useful. . . . How To Have Willpower is an important work, perhaps Fontaine’s best, that deserves to be both studied and discussed. One hopes that it will not only reintroduce these forgotten writings of Plutarch and Prudentius to a new generation of readers, but also reignite the old debate between the merits of faith and reason."---George Thomas, Quintus Curtius

Michael Fontaine is professor of classics at Cornell University. His books include four other volumes in the Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers series, How to Drink, How to Grieve, How to Tell a Joke, and How to Get Over a Breakup (all Princeton).

"Fascinating and so useful. . . . How To Have Willpower is an important work, perhaps Fontaine’s best, that deserves to be both studied and discussed. One hopes that it will not only reintroduce these forgotten writings of Plutarch and Prudentius to a new generation of readers, but also reignite the old debate between the merits of faith and reason."---George Thomas, Quintus Curtius

Michael Fontaine is professor of classics at Cornell University. His books include four other volumes in the Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers series, How to Drink, How to Grieve, How to Tell a Joke, and How to Get Over a Breakup (all Princeton).

"Fascinating and so useful. . . . How To Have Willpower is an important work, perhaps Fontaine’s best, that deserves to be both studied and discussed. One hopes that it will not only reintroduce these forgotten writings of Plutarch and Prudentius to a new generation of readers, but also reignite the old debate between the merits of faith and reason."---George Thomas, Quintus Curtius