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A Manual for Living

Epictetus

  • 88 pages · about 1 hour
  • First published 1994
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  • Ancient Ethics
  • Ethics
  • Conduct of life

2 About Epictetus

Died 135

Epictetus ( EH-pick-TEE-təss; Ancient Greek: Ἐπίκτητος, Epíktētos; c. 50 – c. 135 AD) was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was born into slavery at Hierapolis, Phrygia (present-day Pamukkale, in western Turkey) and lived in Rome until his banishment, after which he spent the rest of his life in Nicopolis in northwestern Greece.

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