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    Discourses and Selected Writings

    Part of A Penguin Classics Hardcover

    Author Epictetus
    Cover Design or Artwork by Coralie Bickford-Smith
    Introduction by Robert Dobbin
    Edited by Robert Dobbin
    Translated by Robert Dobbin
    Notes by Robert Dobbin
    Hardcover (Cloth-over-Board, no jacket)
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    A new translation of the influential teachings of the great Stoic philosopher

    Despite being born into slavery, Greco-Roman philosopher Epictetus became one of the most influential thinkers of his time. Discourses and Selected Writings is a transcribed collection of informal lectures given by the philosopher around AD 108. A gateway into the life and mind of a great intellectual, it is also an important example of the usage of Koine or “common” Greek, an ancestor to Standard Modern Greek.
    Epictetus (c. AD 55–135) was a teacher and Greco-Roman philosopher. Originally a slave from Hierapolis in Anatolia (modern Turkey), he was owned for a time by a prominent freedman at the court of the emperor Nero. After gaining his freedom he moved to Nicopolis on the Adriatic coast of Greece and opened a school of philosophy there. His informal lectures (Discourses) were transcribed and published by his student Arrian, who also composed a digest of Epictetus's teaching known as the Manual (or Enchiridion). View titles by Epictetus
    EpictetusIntroduction
    Further Reading
    Note on the Translation

    The Discourses
    Fragments
    Enchiridion

    Glossary of Names
    Notes

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    A new translation of the influential teachings of the great Stoic philosopher

    Despite being born into slavery, Greco-Roman philosopher Epictetus became one of the most influential thinkers of his time. Discourses and Selected Writings is a transcribed collection of informal lectures given by the philosopher around AD 108. A gateway into the life and mind of a great intellectual, it is also an important example of the usage of Koine or “common” Greek, an ancestor to Standard Modern Greek.

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    Epictetus (c. AD 55–135) was a teacher and Greco-Roman philosopher. Originally a slave from Hierapolis in Anatolia (modern Turkey), he was owned for a time by a prominent freedman at the court of the emperor Nero. After gaining his freedom he moved to Nicopolis on the Adriatic coast of Greece and opened a school of philosophy there. His informal lectures (Discourses) were transcribed and published by his student Arrian, who also composed a digest of Epictetus's teaching known as the Manual (or Enchiridion). View titles by Epictetus

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    EpictetusIntroduction
    Further Reading
    Note on the Translation

    The Discourses
    Fragments
    Enchiridion

    Glossary of Names
    Notes

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