Discourses, Fragments, Handbook
$23.99
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
26 February 2014
Summary
‘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 dia…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199595181 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199595186 |
| Author: | Epictetus, Robin Hard, Christopher Gill |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 26 February 2014 |
| Weight: | 276g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 129mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
Critics Review
lively translation … [Epictetus] remains relevant for anyone who refuses to go with the flow.
lively translation … [Epictetus] remains relevant for anyone who refuses to go with the flow. * Chris Hirst, Independent *
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. He also translated Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations (OWC, 2011) for the same series.
Christopher Gill has written extensively on ancient philosophy, with a particular focus on Hellenistic and Roman ethics and psychology. He is the editor of the Oxford World’s Classics edition of Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, translated by Robin Hard.
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