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Discourses of Epictetus

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

Philosophical discourses of Epictetus as recorded by his affectionate student, Arrian. One main precept expounded is that we do not fear events but rather our thoughts about those events. (Summary by the reader)

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

Language: English

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 00	Introduction and Preface	Christine Rottger	00:14:49
Play 01	Book I I. Of the Things Which Are in Our Power, and Not in Our Power	Christine Rottger	00:08:50
Play 02	II. How a Man on Every Occasion Can Maintain His Proper Character	Christine Rottger	00:09:20
Play 03	III. How a Man Should Proceed from the Principles of God Being the Father of All Men to the Rest	Christine Rottger	00:02:47
Play 04	IV. Of Progress or Improvement	Christine Rottger	00:09:10
Play 05	V. Against the Academics	Christine Rottger	00:03:01
Play 06	VI. Of Providence	Christine Rottger	00:11:00
Play 07	VII. Of the Use of Sophistical Arguments and Hypothetical and the Like	Christine Rottger	00:09:07
Play 08	VIII. That the Faculties Are Not Safe to the Uninstructed	Christine Rottger	00:04:19
Play 09	IX. How from the Fact That We Are Akin to God a Man May Proceed to the Consequences	Christine Rottger	00:09:59
Play 10	X. Against Those Who Eagerly Seek Preferment at Rome	Christine Rottger	00:04:09
Play 11	XI. Of Natural Affection	Christine Rottger	00:10:58
Play 12	XII. Of Contentment	Christine Rottger	00:09:26
Play 13	XIII. How Everything May Be Done Acceptably to the Gods	Christine Rottger	00:02:09
Play 14	XIV. That the Deity Oversees All Things	Christine Rottger	00:05:15
Play 15	XV. What Philosophy Promises	Christine Rottger	00:02:38
Play 16	XVI. Of Providence	Christine Rottger	00:05:17
Play 17	XVII. That the Logical Art is Necessary	Christine Rottger	00:07:30
Play 18	XVIII. That We Ought Not to Be Angry with the Errors (Faults) of Others	Christine Rottger	00:07:19
Play 19	XIX. How We Should Behave to Tyrants	Christine Rottger	00:07:54
Play 20	XX. About Reason, How I Contemplates Itself	Christine Rottger	00:05:06
Play 21	XXI. Against Those Who Wish to Be Admired	Christine Rottger	00:01:20
Play 22	XXII. On Precognition	Christine Rottger	00:05:52
Play 23	XXIII. Against Epicurus	Christine Rottger	00:02:30
Play 24	XXIV. How We Should Struggle with Circumstances	Christine Rottger	00:05:13
Play 25	XXV. On the Same	Christine Rottger	00:08:13
Play 26	XXVI. What is the Law of Life	Christine Rottger	00:05:24
Play 27	XXVII. In How Many Ways Appearances Exist, and What Aids We Should Provide Against Them	Christine Rottger	00:06:13
Play 28	XXVIII. That We Ought Not to Be Angry with Men; and What are the Small and the Great Things Among Men	Christine Rottger	00:09:27
Play 29	XXIX. On Constancy (Or Firmness)	Christine Rottger	00:18:06
Play 30	XXX. What We Ought to Have Ready in Difficult Circumstances	Christine Rottger	00:02:23
Play 31	Book II I. That Confidence (Courage) is Not Inconsistent with Caution	Christine Rottger	00:12:15
Play 32	II. Of Tranquility (Freedom from Perturbation)	Christine Rottger	00:06:09
Play 33	III. To Those Who Recommend Persons to Philosophers	Christine Rottger	00:02:08
Play 34	IV. Against a Person Who Had Once Been Detected in Adultery	Christine Rottger	00:03:54
Play 35	V. How Magnanimity Is Consistent with Care	Christine Rottger	00:08:45
Play 36	VI. Of Indifference	Christine Rottger	00:06:51
Play 37	VII. How We Ought to Use Divination	Christine Rottger	00:04:10
Play 38	VIII. What Is the Nature ('H Ουσία) Of the Good	Christine Rottger	00:09:06
Play 39	IX. That When We Cannot Fulfil That Which the Character of a Man Promises, We Assume the Character of a Philosopher	Christine Rottger	00:07:08
Play 40	X. How We May Discover the Duties of Life from Names	Christine Rottger	00:08:40
Play 41	XI. What the Beginning of Philosophy Is	Christine Rottger	00:07:11
Play 42	XII. Of Disputation or Discussion	Christine Rottger	00:06:51
Play 43	XIII. On Anxiety (Solicitude)	Christine Rottger	00:08:22
Play 44	XIV. To Naso	Christine Rottger	00:08:41
Play 45	XV. To or Against Those Who Obstinately Persist in What They Have Determined	Christine Rottger	00:05:57
Play 46	XVI. That We Do Not Strive to Use Our Opinions About Good and Evil	Christine Rottger	00:14:57
Play 47	XVII. How We Must Adapt Preconceptions to Particular Cases	Christine Rottger	00:12:04
Play 48	XVIII. How We Should Struggle Against Appearances	Christine Rottger	00:08:15
Play 49	XIX. Against Those Who Embrace Philosophical Opinions Only in Words	Christine Rottger	00:11:10
Play 50	XX. Against the Epicureans and the Academics	Christine Rottger	00:12:31
Play 51	XXI. Of Inconsistency	Christine Rottger	00:07:14
Play 52	XXII. On Friendship	Christine Rottger	00:12:43
Play 53	XXIII. On the Power of Speaking	Christine Rottger	00:14:44
Play 54	XXIV. To (Or Against) a Person Who Was One of Those Who Were Not Valued (Esteemed by Him)	Christine Rottger	00:09:28
Play 55	XXV. That Logic is Necessary	Christine Rottger	00:01:05
Play 56	XXVI. What Is the Property of Error	Christine Rottger	00:02:51
Play 57	Book III I. Of Finery in Dress	Christine Rottger	00:13:59
Play 58	II. In What a Man Ought to Be Exercised Who Has Made Proficiency and That We Neglect the Chief Things	Christine Rottger	00:06:31
Play 59	III. What Is the Matter on Which a Good Man Should be Employed, and in What We Ought Chiefly to Practice Ourselves	Christine Rottger	00:07:14
Play 60	IV. Against a Person Who Showed His Partisanship in an Unseemly Way in a Theatre	Christine Rottger	00:04:07
Play 61	V. Against Those Who on Account of Sickness Go Away Home	Christine Rottger	00:05:30
Play 62	VI. Miscellaneous	Christine Rottger	00:03:27
Play 63	VII. To the Administrator of the Free Cities Who Was an Epicurean	Christine Rottger	00:10:33
Play 64	VIII. How We Must Exercise Ourselves Against Appearances (Φαντασίασ)	Christine Rottger	00:02:59
Play 65	IX. To A Certain Rhetorician Who Was Going Up to Rome on a Suit	Christine Rottger	00:07:28
Play 66	X. In What Manner We Ought to Bear Sickness	Christine Rottger	00:06:42
Play 67	XI. Certain Misceallaneous Matters	Christine Rottger	00:01:39
Play 68	XII. About Exercise	Christine Rottger	00:06:15
Play 69	XIII. What Solitude Is, and What Kind of Person a Solitary Man Is	Christine Rottger	00:08:03
Play 70	XIV. Certain Miscellaneous Matters	Christine Rottger	00:03:21
Play 71	XV. That We Ought to Proceed with Circumspection to Everything	Christine Rottger	00:05:08
Play 72	XVI. That We Ought with Caution to Enter into Familiar Intercourse with Men	Christine Rottger	00:04:34
Play 73	XVII. On Providence	Christine Rottger	00:02:36
Play 74	XVIII. That We Ought Not to Be Disturbed by Any News	Christine Rottger	00:02:46
Play 75	XIX. What is the Condition of a Common Kind of Man and of a Philosopher	Christine Rottger	00:02:12
Play 76	XX. That We Can Derive Advantage from All External Things	Christine Rottger	00:05:38
Play 77	XXI. Against Those Who Readily Come to the Profession of Sophists	Christine Rottger	00:07:22
Play 78	XXII. About Cynism	Christine Rottger	00:32:54
Play 79	XXIII. To Those Who Read and Discuss for the Sake of Ostentation	Christine Rottger	00:13:07
Play 80	XXIV. That We Ought Not to Be Moved by a Desire of Those Things Which Are Not in Our Power	Christine Rottger	00:38:46
Play 81	XXV. To Those Who Fall Off (Desist) from Their Purpose	Christine Rottger	00:03:44
Play 82	XXVI. To Those Who Fear Want	Christine Rottger	00:13:16
Play 83	Book IV I. About Freedom	Christine Rottger	00:58:32
Play 84	II. On Familiar Intimacy	Christine Rottger	00:03:37
Play 85	III. What Things We Should Exchange for Other Things	Christine Rottger	00:04:03
Play 86	IV. To Those Who Are Desirous of Passing Life in Tranquility	Christine Rottger	00:18:07
Play 87	V. Against the Quarrelsome and Ferocious	Christine Rottger	00:13:16
Play 88	VI. Against Those Who Lament Over Being Pitied	Christine Rottger	00:14:02
Play 89	VII. On Freedom From Fear	Christine Rottger	00:15:16
Play 90	VIII. Against Those Who Hastily Rush Into the Use of the Philosophic Dress	Christine Rottger	00:14:54
Play 91	IX. To a Person Who Had Been Changed to a Character of Shamelessness	Christine Rottger	00:06:21
Play 92	X. What Things We Ought to Despise, and What Things We Ought to Value	Christine Rottger	00:12:29
Play 93	XI. About Purity (Cleanliness)	Christine Rottger	00:13:06
Play 94	XII. On Attention	Christine Rottger	00:07:18
Play 95	XIII. Against or to Those Who Readily Tell Their Own Affairs	Christine Rottger	00:08:22

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