Discourses and Selected Writings

Argues that happiness lies in learning to perceive exactly what is in our power to change and what is not, and in embracing our fate to live in harmony with god and nature. This book is a guide to the ethics of stoicism and moral self-improvement, and tackles questions of illness and fear, family, and friendship and love.

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 important example of the usage of Koine or ?common? Greek, an ancestor to Standard Modern Greek.

EpictetusIntroduction
Further Reading
Note on the Translation
The Discourses
Fragments
Enchiridion
Glossary of Names
Notes