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Manual. (English)
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The Discourses
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Epictetus' Handbook and the Tablet of Cebes: Guides to Stoic Living
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Epictetus Discourses : Book 1 (Clarendon Later Ancient Philosophers)
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Vom Kynismus: Herausgegeben Und Ubersetzt Mit Einem Kommentar Von M. Billerbeck (Philosophia Antiqua)
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Epictetus was a crippled Greek slave of Phrygia during Nero's reign (54–68 CE ) who heard lectures by the Stoic Musonius before he was freed. Expelled with other philosophers by the emperor Domitian in 89 or 92 he settled permanently in Nicopolis in Epirus. There, in a school which he called 'healing place for sick souls', he taught a practical philosophy, details of which were recorded by Arrian, a student of his, and survive in four books of Discourses and a smaller Encheiridion, a handbook which gives briefly the chief doctrines of the Discourses. He apparently lived into the reign of Hadrian (117–138 CE ). Epictetus was a teacher of Stoic ethics, broad and firm in method, sublime in thought, and now humorous, now sad or severe in spirit.
(From the Loeb edition of Discourses.
(From the Loeb edition of Discourses.
