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The complete works, handbook, discourses, and fragments, Epictetus ; edited and translated with introduction and notes by Robin Waterfield

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-442) and index

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The complete works

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Epictetus ; edited and translated with introduction and notes by Robin Waterfield

handbook, discourses, and fragments

"One of the most important Stoic philosophers is Epictetus. Epictetus (c. 50 - 135 CE) was a Greek enslaved person who established an important school of Stoic philosophy in Rome. Epictetus is appreciated for his clear, good-humored way of explaining difficult ideas and his focus on daily life rather than metaphysics. This may be because he did not write down his lectures and discourses, as Marcus and Seneca did-rather, he delivered them aloud and they were carefully recorded by his students. Thus we should not refer to them as "writings" but as "works." The complete oeuvre consists of his popular handbook on virtue (enchiridion), also known as "The Art of Living," a set of discourses, and a number of fragments. This set of translations, framed by an introduction and notes, is geared expressly to general readers and students, though it will be enormously helpful to scholars as well"--, Provided by publisher