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Epictetus

Also known as Epictetus of Hierapolis, Epiktetos

Epictetus ( ; , Epíktētos; 50 135 AD) was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was born into slavery at Hierapolis, Phrygia (present-day Pamukkale, in western Turkey) and lived in Rome until his banishment, after which he spent the rest of his life in Nicopolis in northwestern Greece.

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Epictetus was a Greek Stoic philosopher who lived from 50 to 135 AD and was born into slavery in what is now Turkey before eventually settling in Greece. His life and philosophical teachings matter because he developed Stoic ideas while navigating the constraints of slavery and later banishment, offering perspectives on freedom, virtue, and how to live well under difficult circumstances.

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Born: c. 55
Died: c. 135
Works: 531

Top works

Major Works of the Stoics (Boxed Set): Meditations, Letters from a Stoic, Discourses and Selected Writings
Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus with the Encheiridion
Discourse of Epictetus; Selections
Discourses of Epictetus; with the Encheiridion and Fragments. Translated, with Notes, a Life of Epictetus, and a View of His Philosophy
The Golden Sayings of Epictetus

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Type: Person
Active from: 0050
Active to: 0135

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Listeners: 445
Total plays: 4,630

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5 total works indexed

Discourses
· 1925 · cited 25x
Encheiridion
· 1928 · cited 7x
The works of Epictetus; Consisting of his discourses in four books, The enchiridion, and fragments.
· 1865 · cited 5x
How to Be Free
· 2018 · cited 5x
Fragments
· 1928 · cited 4x

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Quotes

“Τῷ λογικῷ ζώῳ μόνον ἀφόρητόν ἐστι τὸ ἄλογον, τὸ δ᾿ εὔλογον φορητόν.”
“Τὸ δ᾿ ἀπάγξασθαι οὐκ ἔστιν ἀφόρητον; — Ὅταν γοῦν πάθῃ τις ὅτι εὔλογον, ἀπελθὼν ἀπήγξατο.”
“καίτοι ὅ γε θεὸς οὐ μόνον ἔδωκεν ἡμῖν τὰς δυνάμεις ταύτας, καθ᾿ ἃς οἴσομεν πᾶν τὸ ἀποβαῖνον μὴ ταπεινούμενοι μηδὲ συγκλώμενοι ὑπ᾿ αὐτοῦ, ἀλλ᾿ ὃ ἦν ἀγαθοῦ βασιλέως καὶ ταῖς ἀληθείαις πατρός, ἀκώλυτον τοῦτο ἔδωκεν, ἀνανάγκαστον, ἀπαραπόδιστον, ὅλον αὐτὸ ἐφ᾿ ἡμῖν ἐποίησεν.”
“καὶ ἁπλῶς οὔτε θάνατος οὔτε φυγὴ οὔτε πόνος οὔτε ἄλλο τι τῶν τοιούτων αἴτιόν ἐστι τοῦ πράττειν τι ἢ μὴ πράττειν ἡμᾶς, ἀλλ᾿ ὑπολήψεις καὶ δόγματα.”
“λόγου γὰρ μέγεθος οὐ μήκει οὐδ᾿ ὕψει κρίνεται, ἀλλὰ δόγμασιν.”
“Ἀνδράποδον, οὐκ ἀνέξῃ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ τοῦ σαυτοῦ, ὃς ἔχει τὸν Δία πρόγονον, ὥσπερ υἱὸς ἐκ τῶν αὐτῶν σπερμάτων γέγονεν καὶ τῆς αὐτῆς ἄνωθεν καταβολῆς, ἀλλ᾿ εἰ ἔν τινι τοιαύτῃ χώρᾳ κατετάγης ὑπερεχούσῃ, εὐθὺς τύραννον καταστήσεις σεαυτόν;”

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Key facts

Philosopher.region: Western philosophy
Philosopher.era: Hellenistic philosophy
Philosopher.image: Epicteti Enchiridion Latinis versibus adumbratum (Oxford 1715) frontispiece (cropped).jpg
Philosopher.alt: A line drawing of Epictetus writing at a table with a crutch draped across his lap and shoulder
Philosopher.caption: Eighteenth-century line drawingdepicting Epictetus with his crutch
Philosopher.name: Epictetus
Philosopher.birth_place: Hierapolis, Phrygia(presumed)
Philosopher.death_date: (aged )
Philosopher.death_place: Nicopolis, Epirus
Philosopher.notable_works: Discourses Enchiridion
Philosopher.school_tradition: Stoicism
Philosopher.main_interests: Ethics
Philosopher.notable_ideas: ProhairesisMemento mori

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Wikidata facts

Image: Notice sur les traductions françaises du Manuel d'Épictète - frontispiece.png

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Commons category: Epictetus
date of birth: 0050-01-01
name in native language: ΕΠΙΚΤΗΤΟΣ
Commons Creator page: Epictetus
date of death: 0138-00-00
P12749: Gelenau
P8168: Esponellà

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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to Epictetus, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Epicteti Hand-BElein: in which all-round heron to find crooked means against the wreaths of the vegetable to seynd; All people who wisely fertilize too seyn, or who still want to get wise To the highest necessary requirement, and immense benefits

Epicteti Enchiridion, Et Cebetis Tabula: Graecè, & Latinè

Epicteti Enchiridion

Epicteti Dissertationum ab arriano digestarum : libri IV eiusdem enchiridion et ex deperditis sermonibus fragmenta post IO, Vptoni aliorumque curas ... Iohannes Schweighaeuser ... tomus primus [-V]

Manuel d'Épictete : et tableau de Cébès en grec

Arrianos techne taktike ... [Texto impreso] =]Arriani Ars Tactica ; Acies contra Alanos ; Periplus Ponti Euxini ; Periplus Maris Erythraei ; Liber de Venatione. Epicteti Enchiridion ; ejusdem Apopthegmata et fragmenta, quae in Joannis Stobaei Florilegio, et in Agellii Noctibus Atticis supersunt cum Interpretibus Latinis, & Notis

Enchiridion :et Cebetis Tabula ; Graece & Latine

Doctrine of the Estoyco Philosopher Epictetus, which is called communme [n] te Enchiridio [n]

Epiktētu Encheiridion = Epicteti Enchiridium : Cvm Nova Versione Latina Ac Germanica, Variantibvs Lectionibvs, Nec Non Perpetvis Notis, Rervmqve In Capitibvs Indice

Moralis philosophiae medulla, docens quo pacto ad animi tranquillitatem, beatitudinemque praesentis vitae perveniri possit, nempe Epicteti enchiridion

Man Epicteti’s hand-baptism: translated into a teouch, And All Thin, as they love themselves, to read the high and low, scholars and the unlearned, the old and the young, useful, and even more useful

Epicteti Enchiridion, Hoc Est Pugio, siue Ars humanae uitae correctrix. [1]

Epicteti enchiridium :una cum Cebetis Thebani tabula graec. & lat.

Manuale ....

Epicteti enchiridion, hoc est, pugio, sive ars humanae vitae correctrix

Epicteti Enchiridion, Hoc Est Pugio, siue Ars humanae uitae correctrix. [1]

Epicteti Stoici Philosophi Encheiridion Item, Cebetis Thebani Tabula De vita humana prudenter instituenda. [2] (1595)

Undertalk

Epicteti Manuale et Sententiae: Quibus accedunt Tabula Cebetis & alia affinis argumenti

Encheiridion

Epiktētu Encheiridion

Epictētu Encheiridion :Kebētos pinax, Kleanthus hymnos

SVBNOTATA HIC CONTINENTVR Magni Athanasij in psalmos opusculum. Enchiridion Epicteti stoici. Basilij oratio de inuidia. Plutarchus de differe [n] tia inter odiu [m] & inuidia [m]. Tabula Cebetis Thebani

Leonis Pape: hoc est pontificis maximi & sanctissimi Epistolae catholicae & sanctae eruditio [n] is plenissim [a] e

Contenta In Hoc opes sunt haec. Catonis praecepta moralia recognita /

Epicteti Stoici Philosophi Encheiridion. Item Cebetis Thebani tabula de vita humana prudenter instituenda. Accessere Simplicij in eundem Epicteti libellum doctissima scholia. Arriani commentariorum de Epicteti disputationibus libri quatuor

Enchîridion ó Manual de Epicteto con el texto griego

Epiktetou Encheiridion. Arrianou Peri tou Epiktetou biblia tesara

Epicteti quae supersunt Dissertationes ab Arriano collectae. Nec non Enchiridion et fragmenta graece et latine in duos tomos distributa

Epicteti Enchiridion vna cum Cebetis Thebani tabula graec. Lat

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Epictetus studied Stoic philosophy under Musonius Rufus and after manumission, his formal emancipation from slavery, he began to teach philosophy. When philosophers were banished from Rome by Emperor Domitian toward the end of the first century, Epictetus founded a school of philosophy in Nicopolis. He taught that philosophy is a way of life and not simply a theoretical discipline. To Epictetus, all external events are beyond our control; he argues that we should accept whatever happens calmly and dispassionately. However, he held that individuals are responsible for their own actions, which they can examine and control through rigorous self-discipline. His teachings were written down and published by his pupil Arrian in his Discourses and Enchiridion. They influenced many later thinkers, including Marcus Aurelius, Pascal, Diderot, Montesquieu, Rabelais, and Samuel Johnson.