About the Book: How to Be Free
A superb new edition of Epictetuss famed handbook on Stoicism—translated by one
of the worlds leading authorities on Stoic philosophy
Born a slave, the Roman Stoic philosopher Epictetus (c. 55135 AD) taught that
mental freedom is supreme, since it can liberate one anywhere, even in a prison.
In How to Be Free, A. A. Long—one of the worlds leading authorities on Stoicism
and a pioneer in its remarkable contemporary revival—provides a superb new
edition of Epictetuss celebrated guide to the Stoic philosophy of life (the
Encheiridion) along with a selection of related reflections in his Discourses.
Freedom,