| #281450 in Books | Harvard University Press | 1928-01-01 | 1928-01-31 | Original language:Ancient Greek | PDF # 1 | .98 x4.46 x6.88l,.78 | File type: PDF | 576 pages | ||15 of 15 people found the following review helpful.| Part II of best edition available today.|By B. Marold|This is the second of the two volume Loeb Classical Library edition of Epictetus' Discourses, with Greek and W. A. Oldfather's English translation on facing pages. For those who have no intgerest in the Greek, purchasing this volume may seem like a bit of overkill when compared with inexpensive reprints such as the one fro
Epictetus was a crippled Greek slave of Phrygia during Nero's reign (54–68 CE) 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 which 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 s...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Epictetus: Discourses, Books 3-4. The Encheiridion. (Loeb Classical Library No. 218) | Epictetus. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
