Epictetus Discourse Books 1 and 2

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About the author

William Abbott Oldfather (1880–1945), one of America’s most important classicists, was a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Summary

Epictetus was a crippled Greek slave of Phrygia during Nero’s reign who heard lectures by the Stoic Musonius before he was freed. He is the author of Discourses and a smaller Enceiridion, a handbook that encapsulates the doctrines of the larger work.

Product details

• Authors: Epictetus
• Assisted by: W. A. Oldfather (Translation), W.A. Oldfather (Translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.05.2011
• EAN: 9780674991453
• ISBN: 978-0-674-99145-3
• No. of pages: 481
• Dimensions: 115 mm x 168 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Loeb Classical Library; Loeb Classical Library; Loeb Classical Library *CONTINS TO [e-mail]
• Subjects: Fiction; Non-fiction book; Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Literary essays