EP 254: Epictetus and Stoicism w/Robin Waterfield

The Classical Ideas Podcast · Oct 28, 2022 · 37m

Robin Waterfield is an independent scholar and translator living in southern Greece. In addition to thirty volumes of translations of works of Greek literature, he is the author of numerous books, ranging from children's fiction to Greek history, most recently The Making of a King, also published by the University of Chicago Press

The complete surviving works of Epictetus, the most influential Stoic philosopher from antiquity.

"Some things are up to us and some are not."

Epictetus was born into slavery around the year 50 CE, and, upon being granted his freedom, he set himself up as a…