Epictetus: Vol. II (2) (Epictetus - Loeb 218)

Author: Epictus

ISBN: 9780674992405

Binding: hardcover

Section: Loeb Classics

Subtitle: Discourses Books 3-4/Fragments/The Encheiridion

Epictetus was a crippled Greek slave of Phrygia during Nero’s reign (AD 54–68) who heard lectures by the Stoic Musonius before he was freed. Expelled with other philosophers by the emperor Domitian in 89 or 92, he settled permanently in Nicopolis in Epirus. There, in a school that he called “healing place for sick souls” he taught a practical philosophy, details of which were recorded by Arrian, a student of his, and survive in four books of Discourses and a smaller Encheiridion, a handbook that gives briefly the chief doctrines of the Discourses. He apparently lived into the reign of Hadrian (AD 117–138).

The Loeb Classical Library edition of Epictetus is in two volumes.