How to Be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)

A superb new edition of Epictetus's famed handbook on Stoicism--translated by one of the world's leading authorities on Stoic philosophy

Born a slave, the Roman Stoic philosopher Epictetus (c. 55-135 A…

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