Epictetus: Discourses, Fragments, Handbook

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Epictetus: Discourses, Fragments, HandbookOxford World's Classics Epictetus's Discourses have been the most widely read and influential of all writings of Stoic philosophy, from antiquity onwards. They set out the core ethical principles of Stoicism in a form designed to help people put them into practice and to use them as a basis for leading a good human life. Epictetus was a teacher, and a freed slave, whose discourses have a vivid informality, animated by anecdotes and dialogue. Forceful,

debate with her husband on issues of beauty and truth

with its larger-than-life characters (particularly the boastful soldier Thraso and the toady Gnatho)

It consists of 18 sections

For her audacity

The chapters singly offer insights into some of the foundational poems of the European epic tradition and together take a bold

' And Archibald MacLeish wrote

Hercules is the ultimate Greek hero - just ask him

This book by one of the preeminent Virgil scholars of our day is the first comprehensive study of ekphrasis in Virgil’s final masterpiece

On the Commonwealth survives only in part

Aeschylus was the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world's great art-forms

When the brave warrior Theseus meets King Minos

reflects that revolution and aims to show how Euripides was continually reinventing himself