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    The Encheiridion and Discourses
    The Encheiridion and Discourses
    The Encheiridion and Discourses
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    The Encheiridion and Discourses

    Written by Epictetus

    Narrated by Jonathan Booth

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    Born into slavery in the first century AD, Epictetus was a leading Greek philosopher of the Stoic school. He spent most of his life in Rome before the emperor Domitian banished all philosophers from the city in AD 93; his exile then took him to Nicopolis in Greece. His teachings were recorded by his pupil Arrian, who published both the Encheiridion and Discourses. The Discourses, which Arrian claimed to have taken down during lectures he attended, comprised eight books of which we have only four. The Encheiridion (‘Handbook’) is a distillation of the main ideas found in the Discourses. Throughout these works is the strong sense of Stoic philosophy, with its emphasis on self-examination and self-knowledge, being presented as a practical way of living rather than a theoretical code.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNaxos Audiobooks
    Release dateNov 1, 2016
    ISBN9781781983638
    The Encheiridion and Discourses
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    Epictetus

    Epictetus (circa 55-135 ce) taught in Rome until the year 94 ce, when Emperor Domitian banished philosophers from the city. In exile, he established a school of philosophy where his distinguished students included Marcus Aurelius, author of Meditations. Some 1,863 years after Epictetus's death, Tom Wolfe revived his philosophy in the bestselling novel A Man in Full.

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      The chapters have been shuffled out of order. Please fix, thank you.

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