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The discourses as reported by Arrian
- Title
- The discourses as reported by Arrian / Epictetus ; with an English translation by W.A. Oldfather.
- Author
- Epictetus
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 1925-1928.
- United States of America : The Maple-Vail Book Manufacturing Group, 1998.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | v. 2 | Text | No restrictions | *R-RMRR PA3611 .E65 v. 2 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Reference |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | v. 1 | Text | No restrictions | *R-RMRR PA3611 .E65 v. 1 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Reference |
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- Description
- xxxviii, 436 pages; 17 cm
- Summary
- Epictetus ('Acquired', probably his real name) was a crippled Greek slave of Phrygia during Nero's reign (A.D.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 and, in a school which he called 'healing place for sick souls', taught a practical philosophy, details of which were taken down by his pupil Flavius Arrianus and survive in four books of 'Diatribae' or Discourses and a smaller 'Encheiridon' or Handbook which gives brifly the chief doctrines of the other work. He lived apparently into the reign of Hadrian (A.D. 117-138). Epictetus was a teacher and preacher of practical Stoic ethics, broad and firm in method, sublime in thought, and now humorous, now sad or severe in spirit. How should one live righteously? Our god-given will is our paramount possession, and we must not covet others'. We must not resist fortune. Man is part of a system of men and God; men are reasoning beings (in feeble bodies) and must conform to God's mind and the will of nature. Epictetus presents us also with a pungent picture of the perfect (Stoic) man.
- Series Statement
- Loeb classical library ; 131, 218
- Uniform Title
- Loeb classical library ; 131, 218.
- Subjects
- Note
- Volume 1 first published 1925; Reset and reprinted 1998.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxii-xxxvii) and indexes.
- Language (note)
- Greek and English on facing pages; introductory matter in English.
- Contents
- [Volume] I. Books 1-2 -- [volume] II. Books 3-4 ; Fragments ; Encheiridion.
- Call Number
- PA3611
- ISBN
- 9780674991453
- 0674991451
- 9780674992405
- 0674992407
- OCLC
- 957285230
- Author
- Epictetus, author.
- Title
- The discourses as reported by Arrian / Epictetus ; with an English translation by W.A. Oldfather.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 1925-1928.
- Manufacturer
- United States of America : The Maple-Vail Book Manufacturing Group, 1998.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Loeb classical library ; 131, 218Loeb classical library ; 131, 218.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxii-xxxvii) and indexes.
- Language
- Greek and English on facing pages; introductory matter in English.
- Added Author
- Arrian.Oldfather, W. A. (William Abbott), 1880-1945, translator.Epictetus. Manual. English & Greek.
- Research Call Number
- *R-RMRR PA3611 .E65