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A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus with the Encheiridion

Epictetus (c. 55 - c. 135)
Translated by George Long (1800 - 1879)

Selection of text from the four-volume work by Epictetus commonly referred to as the Discourses. The sections are mostly quite short but packed with wisdom and hard earned experience. Also included is the Encheiridion ("Manual"), a summary of theoretical and applied Stoicism.

Genre(s): Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity), Ancient

Language: English

Keyword(s): philosophy (950), religion (732), psychology (120), Greek (64), classic (43), Ancient (14)

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 01	Biographical Note	TriciaG	00:08:25
Play 02	Of the Things Which Are in Our Power and Not in Our Power	D. Scott Warren	00:04:08
Play 03	How a Man Can on Every Occasion Maintain His Proper Character	D. Scott Warren	00:02:12
Play 04	How a Man Should Proceed from the Principle of God Being the Father to All the Rest	D. Scott Warren	00:02:30
Play 05	Of Progress or Improvement	D. Scott Warren	00:07:51
Play 06	Against the Academics	D. Scott Warren	00:01:37
Play 07	OF PROVIDENCE	Paul Lawley-Jones	00:07:36
Play 08	HOW FROM THE FACT THAT WE ARE AKIN TO GOD A MAN MAY PROCEED TO THE CONSEQUENCES	Paul Lawley-Jones	00:03:12
Play 09	OF CONTENTMENT.	Paul Lawley-Jones	00:06:31
Play 10	HOW EVERYTHING MAY BE DONE ACCEPTABLY TO THE GODS	Paul Lawley-Jones	00:02:00
Play 11	WHAT PHILOSOPHY PROMISES	Paul Lawley-Jones	00:02:38
Play 12	THAT WE OUGHT NOT TO BE ANGRY WITH THE ERRORS (FAULTS) OF OTHERS	AstroLyon	00:04:48
Play 13	HOW WE SHOULD BEHAVE TO TYRANTS	CadenB	00:04:46
Play 14	AGAINST THOSE WHO WISH TO BE ADMIRED	CadenB	00:01:19
Play 15	ON PRÆCOGNITIONS	CadenB	00:04:37
Play 16	HOW WE SHOULD STRUGGLE WITH CIRCUMSTANCES	Paul Lawley-Jones	00:02:57
Play 17	ON THE SAME	Adrian Stephens	00:05:17
Play 18	IN HOW MANY WAYS APPEARANCES EXIST, AND WHAT AIDS WE SHOULD PROVIDE AGAINST THEM	Adrian Stephens	00:04:56
Play 19	THAT WE OUGHT NOT TO BE ANGRY WITH MEN; AND WHAT ARE THE SMALL AND THE GREAT THINGS AMONG MEN.	Adrian Stephens	00:07:55
Play 20	ON CONSTANCY (OR FIRMNESS)	Adrian Stephens	00:10:26
Play 21	THAT CONFIDENCE (COURAGE) IS NOT INCONSISTENT WITH CAUTION	Adrian Stephens	00:09:54
Play 22	OF TRANQUILLITY (FREEDOM FROM PERTURBATION)	Adrian Stephens	00:05:36
Play 23	HOW MAGNANIMITY IS CONSISTENT WITH CARE.	Adrian Stephens	00:06:35
Play 24	OF INDIFFERENCE	Adrian Stephens	00:05:26
Play 25	HOW WE OUGHT TO USE DIVINATION	Adrian Stephens	00:09:25
Play 26	THAT WHEN WE CANNOT FULFIL THAT WHICH THE CHARACTER OF A MAN PROMISES, WE ASSUME THE CHARACTER OF A PHILOSOPHER	Adrian Stephens	00:07:02
Play 27	HOW WE MAY DISCOVER THE DUTIES OF LIFE FROM NAMES.	Paul Lawley-Jones	00:06:31
Play 28	WHAT THE BEGINNING OF PHILOSOPHY IS	Paul Lawley-Jones	00:07:22
Play 29	OF DISPUTATION OR DISCUSSION	Paul Lawley-Jones	00:02:30
Play 30	ON ANXIETY (SOLICITUDE)	Paul Lawley-Jones	00:07:04
Play 31	TO NASO	Phil Schempf	00:04:27
Play 32	TO OR AGAINST THOSE WHO OBSTINATELY PERSIST IN WHAT THEY HAVE DETERMINED.	seanmcwilliamsvo	00:06:03
Play 33	THAT WE DO NOT STRIVE TO USE OUR OPINIONS ABOUT GOOD AND EVIL	CadenB	00:06:03
Play 34	HOW WE MUST ADAPT PRECONCEPTIONS TO PARTICULAR CASES	CadenB	00:02:27
Play 35	HOW WE SHOULD STRUGGLE AGAINST APPEARANCES	Paul Lawley-Jones	00:06:28
Play 36	OF INCONSISTENCY.	Paul Lawley-Jones	00:04:37
Play 37	ON FRIENDSHIP	realisticspeakers	00:08:39
Play 38	ON THE POWER OF SPEAKING	realisticspeakers	00:08:46
Play 39	TO (OR AGAINST) A PERSON WHO WAS ONE OF THOSE WHO WERE NOT VALUED (ESTEEMED) BY HIM.	realisticspeakers	00:04:49
Play 40	THAT LOGIC IS NECESSARY.	realisticspeakers	00:01:16
Play 41	OF FINERY IN DRESS	Sonia	00:03:20
Play 42	IN WHAT A MAN OUGHT TO BE EXERCISED WHO HAS MADE PROFICIENCY; AND THAT WE NEGLECT THE CHIEF THINGS	Sonia	00:06:39
Play 43	WHAT IS THE MATTER ON WHICH A GOOD MAN SHOULD BE EMPLOYED, AND IN WHAT WE OUGHT CHIEFLY TO PRACTISE OURSELVES	Sonia	00:04:35
Play 44	MISCELLANEOUS	Sonia	00:01:55
Play 45	TO THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE FREE CITIES WHO WAS AN EPICUREAN	Sonia	00:05:15
Play 46	HOW WE MUST EXERCISE OURSELVES AGAINST APPEARANCES	Adrian Stephens	00:03:18
Play 47	TO A CERTAIN RHETORICIAN WHO WAS GOING UP TO ROME ON A SUIT	Adrian Stephens	00:06:06
Play 48	IN WHAT MANNER WE OUGHT TO BEAR SICKNESS	seanmcwilliamsvo	00:07:05
Play 49	ABOUT EXERCISE	seanmcwilliamsvo	00:03:12
Play 50	WHAT SOLITUDE IS, AND WHAT KIND OF PERSON A SOLITARY MAN IS	Adrian Stephens	00:04:59
Play 51	CERTAIN MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS	Adrian Stephens	00:03:02
Play 52	THAT WE OUGHT TO PROCEED WITH CIRCUMSPECTION TO EVERYTHING	Daniel William Bader	00:04:05
Play 53	THAT WE OUGHT WITH CAUTION TO ENTER INTO FAMILIAR INTERCOURSE WITH MEN.	Daniel William Bader	00:03:45
Play 54	ON PROVIDENCE	Daniel William Bader	00:02:15
Play 55	ABOUT CYNICISM	Daniel William Bader	00:08:44
Play 56	THAT WE OUGHT NOT TO BE MOVED BY A DESIRE OF THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE NOT IN OUR POWER	TriciaG	00:17:11
Play 57	TO THOSE WHO FALL OFF (DESIST) FROM THEIR PURPOSE	Adrian Stephens	00:02:39
Play 58	TO THOSE WHO FEAR WANT	Adrian Stephens	00:05:47
Play 59	ABOUT FREEDOM	Adrian Stephens	00:19:39
Play 60	ON FAMILIAR INTIMACY.	TriciaG	00:01:27
Play 61	WHAT THINGS WE SHOULD EXCHANGE FOR OTHER THINGS	Adrian Stephens	00:04:32
Play 62	TO THOSE WHO ARE DESIROUS OF PASSING LIFE IN TRANQUILLITY.	Phil Schempf	00:09:03
Play 63	AGAINST THE QUARRELSOME AND FEROCIOUS	realisticspeakers	00:11:48
Play 64	AGAINST THOSE WHO LAMENT OVER BEING PITIED	realisticspeakers	00:03:55
Play 65	ON FREEDOM FROM FEAR	realisticspeakers	00:07:07
Play 66	TO A PERSON WHO HAD BEEN CHANGED TO A CHARACTER OF SHAMELESSNESS	AstroLyon	00:01:19
Play 67	WHAT THINGS WE OUGHT TO DESPISE AND WHAT THINGS WE OUGHT TO VALUE	AstroLyon	00:06:06
Play 68	ABOUT PURITY (CLEANLINESS)	AstroLyon	00:06:05
Play 69	ON ATTENTION	AstroLyon	00:05:06
Play 70	AGAINST OR TO THOSE WHO READILY TELL THEIR OWN AFFAIRS.	AstroLyon	00:05:28
Play 71	THE ENCHEIRIDION: 1 - 10	AstroLyon	00:09:39
Play 72	THE ENCHEIRIDION: 11 - 20	AstroLyon	00:07:56
Play 73	THE ENCHEIRIDION: 21 - 30	AstroLyon	00:12:47
Play 74	THE ENCHEIRIDION: 31 - 40	AstroLyon	00:13:49
Play 75	THE ENCHEIRIDION: 41 - 52	AstroLyon	00:12:04

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