Discourses and Handbook of Epictetus the Stoic

Epictetus, first and second centuries CE, died around 135 CE, is the name this site attaches to a Greek Stoic, born enslaved at Hierapolis, later a teacher at Rome until an edict expelled philosophers, then at Nicopolis. Later hosts report that he was lame.

He wrote nothing himself. The Greek this site holds is Arrian’s record: the Διατριβαί (Discourses) and the Ἐγχειρίδιον (Enchiridion). That Greek speaks of προαίρεσις.

Arrian wrote Greek. Seneca wrote Latin and is outside this autograph stream. A page here is Arrian’s Greek under Epictetus’s name.