Discourses, Fragments, Handbook
$34.19
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
26 February 2014
Summary
The Art of Stoic Living: Discourses, Handbook, and Fragments
‘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, wh…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199595181 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199595186 |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
| 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: | 197mm x 129mm x 18mm |
What They're Saying
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 *
About The Author
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 ancient philosophy, especially on Hellenistic and Roman ethics and psychology. He is the editor of Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, tr. Robin Hard, for Oxford World’s Classics.
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