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The Teaching of Epictetus

English translation · Translated by T. W. Rolleston

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Epictetus wrote nothing himself. His pupil Arrian, later a Roman senator and consul, took down his lectures at Nicopolis and published them as the Dissertations, of which four of eight books survive. This book presents the Encheiridion, or Manual, drawn from them, with selections from the Dissertations and the Fragments. T. W. Rolleston translated it from the Greek and added an introduction and notes. Epictetus taught Stoic philosophy and was born a slave.

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Was born into slavery in Phrygia, worked in Rome for a secretary of Nero, was lamed for life, and was eventually freed and exiled along with every other philosopher when Domitian expelled them. He wrote nothing. The Discourses and the shorter Enchiridion were taken down by his student Arrian, which is the same route by which Socrates survives.

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Author
Epictetus
Reading time
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Pages
127
Language
English
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