Discourses and selected writings / Epictetus ; translated and edited by Robert Dobbin.

"Epictetus, a Greek Stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in Nicopolis in the early second century AD. His animated discussions were celebrated for their rhetorical wizardry and were written down by Arrian, his most famous pupil. Together with the Enchiridion, a manual of his...

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Main Author: Epictetus
Other Authors: Dobbin, Robert F.
Format: Book
Language:English
Latin
Published: London : Penguin, 2008.
Series:Penguin classics.
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Uniform Title:Discourses.

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