Epictetus (c.55–c.135) was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was probably born at Hierapolis, Phrygia, and lived most of his life in Rome until his exile to Nicopolis in northwestern Greece, where he died. The name given by his parents, if one was given, is not known - the word epiktetos in Greek simply means "acquired." Epictetus - Life. Epictetus spent his youth as a slave in Rome to Epaphroditos, a very wealthy freedman of Nero. Even as a slave, Epictetus used his time productively, studying Stoic P ...

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Epictetus Greek Stoic philosopher, a freed slave who taught philosophy in Rome until 90 AD, when Domitian expelled all philosophers. He left no writings, and his philosophy is known through the Discourses and Enchiridion of his pupil Flavius Arrian.

Like other Stoics, he held that each person has at the root of his or her being a spark of the Logos, so that all people are brothers and relationships with others must be respected. Inner harmony could be attained by correct perceptions and attitudes, differentiating between what is "ours" and thus under our control, and what is "not ours" and therefore beyond our control. He encouraged making new habits of thought and action through constant practice and self-discipline and by acting deliberately.

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55 - Events. Roman emperor Nero is also a Roman Consul. 55 - Births. Epictetus, Greek-Roman philosopher 55 - Deaths. Britannicus, killed by supporters of Nero Category: 55 ...

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135 - Events. Epictetus writes the Enchiridion (approximate date) Last (4th) year of Yangjia era of the Chinese Han Dynasty The Diaspora begins as the Jews are expelled by the Roman Empire. 135 - Deaths. Simon bar Kokhba, leader of the Jewish revolt against the Roman Empire Rabbi Akiva, a Jewish sage, executed by the Romans (probable date). Category: 135 ...

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101 - Events. Roman emperor Trajan starts an expedition against Dacia. Battle of Tapae Epictetus writes and publishes The Discourses. The Chinese (Tibetan) introduce their Buddhist Religion into Indonesia. 101 - Births. Herodes Atticus, Greek rhetoritician 101 - Deaths. Gan Ying, an envoy of the Han dynasty in China who learned about Ta Ts'in (the Roman Empire) alth ...

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Lucius Flavius Arrianus Xenophon (c. 92-c. 175), known in English as Arrian, was a Greek historian and philosopher of the Roman period. As with other authors of the Second Sophistic Arrian wrote primarily in Attic. His works preserve the philosophy of Epictetus, and include an important account of Alexander the Great, the Anabasis of Alexander. Arrian - Arrian's Life. Arrian was born in Nicomedia (now Izmit), the capital of the Roman province of Bithynia, in what is now north-western Turkey. H ...

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Cicero Zeno of Citium Epictetus Epicurus and Lucretius Sextus Empiricus ...

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Arrian was born in Nicomedia (now Izmit), the capital of the Roman province of Bithynia, in what is now north-western Turkey. He studied philosophy in Nicopolis in Epirus, under the Stoic philosopher Epictetus, and wrote two books about the philosopher's teachings. At the same time he entered the Imperial service, and served in Gaul and on the Danube frontier. In 129 he held the office of Consul. In 130 he was appointed governor of Cappadocia and commander of the Roman legions on the border with Armenia. It was unusual at this time for a Gre ...

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At the same time he was busy as a translator from the Greek. His versions of Epictetus, Hippocrates, Galen, Plutarch's Eroticus and Plato's Charmides delighted contemporaries by a certain fluency of Latin style and grace of manner which distinguished him as an original writer. Of these learned labors, the most universally acceptable to the public of that time were a series of discursive essays on philology and criticism, first published in 1489 under the title of Miscellanea. They had an immediate and lasting effect, enc ...

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A number of authors in the Great Books set - such as Plutarch, Epictetus, Tacitus, Dante, Herman Melville, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jean Jacques Rousseau, David Hume, John Stuart Mill, Francis Bacon, Charles Darwin and William James - were also represented by shorter works in the Gateway volumes. And several Gateway readings discussed authors in the Great Books series. For instance, a selection from Henry Adams' Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartr ...

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Aphoristic collections, sometimes known as wisdom literature, have a prominent place in the canons of several ancient societies: E.g. the Biblical Book of Proverbs, Islamic Hadith, Hesiod's Works and Days, or Epictetus' Handbook. Aphoristic collections also make up an important part of the work of some modern authors, such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Leonid Sukhorukov. Some writers such as Eric Hoffer employ a style of compressing ideas and thoughts into brief paragraphs, many one sentence long, and refer to these as aphorisms ...

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Collection of various Stoic quotes: Epictetus: “Wherever I go, it will be well with me.” "When I see a man in a state of anxiety, I say, What can this man want? If he did not want something which is not in his power, how could he still be anxious?" "Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of one's desires, but by the removal of desire." "Nothing outside the will can hinder or harm the will; it can only harm itself. If then we accept this, and, when things go amiss, are inclined to blame our ...

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Aphoristic collections, sometimes known as wisdom literature, have a prominent place in the canons of several ancient societies: E.g. the Biblical Book of Proverbs, Islamic Hadith, Hesiod's Works and Days, or Epictetus' Handbook. Aphoristic collections also make up an important part of the work of some modern authors, such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Kraus, Leonid Sukhorukov and Thomas Szasz. Some writers such as Eric Hoffer employ a style of compressing ideas and thoughts into brief paragraphs, many one sentence long, and refer to these as aphorisms ...

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Collection of various Stoic quotes: Epictetus: “Wherever I go, it will be well with me.” "When I see a man in a state of anxiety, I say, What can this man want? If he did not want something which is not in his power, how could he still be anxious?" "Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of one's desires, but by the removal of desire." "Nothing outside the will can hinder or harm the will; it can only harm itself. If then we accept this, and, when things go amiss, are inclined to blame our ...

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List of Greeks - Philosophers. List of Greeks - Ancient period. Anaximander, (609 BC/610 BC-c. 547 BC), philosopher Anaximenes of Miletus, philosopher Aristotle, (384 BC-322 BC), Ancient writer and philosopher Athenagoras of Athens, (c. 133-190), early Christian apologist Democritus, (born 460 BC), philosopher Diogenes, (114-129), patriarch of Constantinople Empedocles, (490 BC-430 BC), philosopher Epictetus, (AD 55-circa 135), phil ...

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Angelo Ambrogini Poliziano (July 14, 1454 – September 24, 1494) was a Florentine classical scholar and poet, one of the revivers of Humanist Latin. He used his didactic poem Manto, written in the 1480s as an introduction to his lectures on Virgil. Poliziano - Early Life. Known in literary annals as Angelo Poliziano or Politianus from his birthplace, was born at Montepulciano in Tuscany. His father, Benedetto, a jurist of good family and distinguished ability, was murdered by political antagonists f ...

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André Dacier (6 April 1651-18 September 1722), was a French classical scholar. He was born at Castres in upper Languedoc. His father, a Protestant lawyer, sent him first to the academy of Puy Laurens, and afterwards to Saumur to study under Tanneguy Lefebvre. On Lefebvre's death in 1672, Dacier moved to Paris, and was appointed one of the editors of the Delphin series of the classics. In 1683 he married Anne Lefèvre, the daughter of his old tutor. Better known by her married name of Madame Dacier ...

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Bithynia was an ancient province in the northwest of Asia Minor, adjoining the Propontis, the Thracian Bosporus and the Euxine (today Black Sea). Several major cities sat on the fertile shores of the Propontis (which is now known as Sea of Marmara): Nicomedia, Chalcedon, Cius and Apamea. According to Strabo Bithynia was bounded on the east by the river Sangarius (modern Sakarya river), but the more commonly received division extended it to the Parthenius, which separated it from Paphlagonia, thus comprising the district ...

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