Discourses, Books 3-4. Fragments. the Encheiridion [Greek, Ancient (To 1453)]

by Epictetus

From slave to sage.

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 that he called "healing place for sick souls" he taught a practical philosophy, details of which were recorded by Arrian, a student of his,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: Greek, Ancient (To 1453)
• ISBN: 0674992407
• ISBN13: 9780674992405
• Release Date: January 1928
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.5" x 6.9"