Discourses and Selected Writings - Paperback
by Épictète
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Availability:In StockContributor:Épictète, Robert Dobbin (Translator), Robert Dobbin (Editor)Series:Penguin ClassicsAudience:Young AdultPublish date:11/25/2008Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780140449464ISBN-10:140449469UPC:9780140449464Book Category:Philosophy, HistoryBook Subcategory:History & Surveys, Ancient, EssaysBook Topic:Ancient & Classical, GreeceSize:7.78 x 5.16 x 0.74 inchesWeight:0.5115Product ID:SC47F9QKXT
Discourses and Selected Writings
A new translation of the influential teachings of the great Stoic philosopher Despite being born into slavery, Greco-Roman philosopher Epictetus became one of the most influential thinkers of his time. Discourses and Selected Writings is a transcribed collection of informal lectures given by the philosopher around AD 108. A gateway into the life and mind of a great intellectual, it is also an...
Series: Penguin Classics
Audience: Young Adult
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780140449464ISBN-10:140449469UPC:9780140449464Book Category:Philosophy, HistoryBook Subcategory:History & Surveys, Ancient, EssaysBook Topic:Ancient & Classical, GreeceSize:7.78 x 5.16 x 0.74 inchesWeight:0.5115Product ID:SC47F9QKXT
Epictetus (c. AD 55-135) was a teacher and Greco-Roman philosopher. Originally a slave from Hierapolis in Anatolia (modern Turkey), he was owned for a time by a prominent freedman at the court of the emperor Nero. After gaining his freedom he moved to Nicopolis on the Adriatic coast of Greece and opened a school of philosophy there. His informal lectures (Discourses) were transcribed and...
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Épictète, Robert Dobbin (Translator), Robert Dobbin (Editor)
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