The Philosophical Review, October 1st, 2000
EPICTETUS: DISCOURSES BOOK 1. By ROBERT DOBBIN. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, 1998. Pp. xxiv, 256.
One might argue that Epictetus has been the most influential Stoic writer of all time. A former slave, he lectured and taught in Rome and later in Nicopolis during the late first and early second centuries C.E. He was famous in his own lifetime, exercised considerable impact on Marcus Aurelius, and inspired one of his students, Lucius Flavianus Arrianus (an aristocrat, provincial governor, and author), to preserve the record of his oral teaching and publish it for posterity...
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