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Discourses, Fragments, Handbook
Epictetus
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Description for Discourses, Fragments, Handbook
Paperback. This is the only complete modern translation of Epictetus's Discourses, together with the Handbook and fragments. A major work of Stoic practical ethics, the Discourses teach that the basis of happiness is up to us. This accessible new translation is accompanied by a full introduction and thorough notes. Translator(s): Hard, Robin. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: HPCA. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 130 x 199 x 18. Weight in Grams: 278.
'About things that are within our power and those that are not.' Epictetus's Discourses have been the most widely read and influential of all writings of Stoic philosophy, from antiquity onwards. They set out the core ethical principles of Stoicism in a form designed to help people put them into practice and to use them as a basis for leading a good human life. Epictetus was a teacher, and a freed slave, whose discourses have a vivid informality, animated by anecdotes and dialogue. Forceful, direct, and challenging, their central message is that the basis of happiness is up to ... Read more
'About things that are within our power and those that are not.' Epictetus's Discourses have been the most widely read and influential of all writings of Stoic philosophy, from antiquity onwards. They set out the core ethical principles of Stoicism in a form designed to help people put them into practice and to use them as a basis for leading a good human life. Epictetus was a teacher, and a freed slave, whose discourses have a vivid informality, animated by anecdotes and dialogue. Forceful, direct, and challenging, their central message is that the basis of happiness is up to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Weight
276g
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199595181
SKU
V9780199595181
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About Epictetus
Robin Hard is the author of The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology (2003) and the translator and editor of Apollodorus' Library of Greek Mythology (1997) and Diogenes' Sayings and Anecdotes (2012) for Oxford World's Classics, as well as the translator of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations (OWC, 2011), with introduction and notes by Christopher Gill. Christopher Gill has written extensively on ... Read more
Reviews for Discourses, Fragments, Handbook
lively translation ... [Epictetus] remains relevant for anyone who refuses to go with the flow.
Chris Hirst, Independent
Chris Hirst, Independent