Discourses, Books 3-4. Fragments. the Encheiridion

Name: Discourses, Books 3-4. Fragments. the Encheiridion
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ISBN: 9780674992405

ISBN-10: 0674992407

ISBN-13: 9780674992405

Edition: 1928

Authors: Epictetus, W. A. Oldfather

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Epictetus was a crippled Greek slave of Phrygia during Nero's reign (AD 54-68) 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 (AD 117-138). Epictetus was a teacher of Stoic ethics, broad and firm in method, sublime in…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1928
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 1/1/1928
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 576
Size: 4.65" wide x 6.65" long x 1.23" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



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