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This exciting essay focuses on the explanation and analysis of Arrian's Discourses of Epictetus, one the most influential works in history and whose understanding, due to its complexity and depth…

??? A Practical Guide to Applying Stoicism ??? This fully adapted and rewritten edition of "The Discourses (Book 1)" offers a comprehensive update to meet the needs of contemporary readers…

No writings of Epictetus himself are really known. His discourses were transcribed and compiled by his pupil Arrian (author of the Anabasis Alexandri). The main work is The Discourses, four…

This is a facsimile reproduction of Vol..Two of the Harvard Classics series. Contents: "The Apology, Phaedo, and Crito," by Plato, "The Golden Sayings of Epictetus," by Epictetus, and "The Meditations…

The Golden Sayings of Epictetus is one of three key texts, along with the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius and Seneca's Letters From A Stoic, from which we know the philosophy…

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…