{"product_id":"9780674992405","title":"Discourses, Books 3-4. Fragments. The Encheiridion by W.A. Oldfather","description":"From slave to sage.   Epictetus was a  crippled Greek slave of Phrygia during Nero's reign (AD 54-68) 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 that he called  \"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 that gives briefly the chief doctrines of the Discourses. He apparently lived into the reign of Hadrian (AD 117-138).    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 edition of Epictetus is in two volumes.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56294353437045,"sku":"9780674992405","price":24.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780674992405.jpg?v=1762763116","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780674992405","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}