About the Book: Discourses and Selected Writings
Epictetus, a Greek stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in
Nicropolis 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 main ideas,
and the fragments collected here, The Discourses argue 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. In this personal,
practical guide to the ethics of stoicism