Epictetus, Discourses, vol. 2 / Loeb Classical Library.

Epictetus, The Discourses reported by Arrian, The Manual and Fragments. Vol. 2 (of 2 volumes): Book III and IV. Translated by W. A. Oldfather. 

Out of stock
Isbn
LM252
€20.00
Hangout Librarie Abelard Montolieu

Let us help you
find your book.

  • Condition : good, slightly rubbed.
    Volumes : 1 volume.
    Binding : publisher's green cloth.
    Format : In-16.
    Pages : V, 559, 8 pp.
    Editor : Cambridge, Harvard University Press / London, Heinemann.
    Date : 1952.


    Bilingual Greek and English. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Epictetus comprises 2 volumes.

    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 a “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 which gives briefly the chief doctrines of the Discourses. He apparently lived into the reign of Hadrian (117–138 CE). Epictetus was a teacher of 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; humans 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.


    The Loeb Classical Library is the only series of books in existence that, through the original text and English translation, provides access to all that is important in Greek and Latin literature. Epic and lyric poetry, tragedy and comedy, history, travel, philosophy and oratory, the great medical writers and mathematicians, the church fathers who made special use of pagan culture - in short, our entire classical heritage is represented here in handy, well-printed paperback volumes in which an up-to-date text and an accurate, cultured English translation face each other page by page. The editors provide substantial introductions as well as essential critical and explanatory notes and selective bibliographies.

More Information
Condition Used - Good
Language United Kingdom
Illustrated No
Year 1952
Author / Cartographer / Photographer Epictetus
Editor Harvard University Press
First edition No
Signed edition No
Signed binding No
Armorial binding No
Binding / Format Hardcover
Size 17 x 11 cm
Write Your Own Review
Only registered users can write reviews. Please Sign in or create an account

No Related Posts