Discourses and Selected Writings

A new translation of the influential teachings of the great Stoic philosopher, now a Penguin Clothbound Classic designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith

Epictetus, a Greek Stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in Nicopolis in the early second century CE. His animated discussions were celebrated for their rhetorical wizardry and were written down by Arrian, his most famous pupil. The Discourses argue that happiness lies in learning to perceive exactly what is in our power to chang...