Epictetus (c.55 - c.135 C.E.) Epictetus (pronounced Epic-TEE-tus) was an exponent of Stoicism who flourished in the early second century C.E. about four hundred years after the Stoic school of Zeno of Citium was established in Athens. He lived and worked, first as a student in Rome, and then as a teacher with his own school in Nicopolis in Greece. Our knowledge of his philosophy and his method ...
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Cleanthes (331-232 BCE.) Cleanthes was a Stoic philosopher of Assus in Lydia, and a disciple of Zeno of Citium. After the death of Zeno he presided over his school. He was originally a wrestler, and in this capacity he visited Athens, where he became acquainted with philosophy. Although he possessed no more than four drachma, he was determined to put himself under the an eminent philosopher. His ...
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THE DISCOURSES by Epictetus 101 AD Translated by George Long CHAPTER BOOK 1 1 Of the things which are in our Power, and not in our Power 2 How a Man on every occasion can maintain his Proper Character 3 How a man should proceed from the principle of God being the father of all men to the rest 4 Of progress or improvement 5 Against the academics 6 Of providence 7 Of the use of sophistical ...
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