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Veröffentlichung:	März 2007
Genre:	Schulbücher
ISBN:	9781406703214
EAN-Code:	9781406703214
Verlag:	Grove Press
Einband:	Kartoniert
Sprache:	English
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Gewicht:	666 gr
Seiten:	476
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EPICTETUS THE DISCOURSES AS REPORTED BY ARRIAN, THE MANUAL, AND FRAGMENTS WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY W, A. OLDFATHER. IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. 1 HOOKS I AND It LONDON WILLIAM HEINEMANN NEW YORK O. P, PUTNAMS SONS MCMXXV Printed in Great Britain INTRODUCTION Slave, poor an Irus, halting as I trod, I y Epicietus, was the friend of God. 1 EPIOTKTUH was a slave womans son, and for many years a slave himself. 2 The tone and temper of tiis whole life were determined thereby. An all engulfing passion for independence and freedom so 1 AouAos EirlKTif ro yevdjmiiv ical crw j avairrjpos Kcd tfplf v T tyoy ical 4 iA. osr aQavdrots. An anonymous epigram John Chrys., Patrol. 1r. LX. Ill Macroh. Sat.. I. 11,45 Antli. Pol. VI L 67 5, ug translated by H. Maenaghten. The ascription to Leonidas i, s merely a pnlaoographical blunder in part of the MS. tradition, that to Kpictetus himself by Macrobius a patent absurdity. J Thin IH tho explicit testimony of an undated but fairly early inneription from Fisidia J. R. S. Sterrett Papers of the Amer. School of Hl m. M-ud. tt Athcm, 18B4--5, 3, 3151 . Kaibd Herm, 1888, 2U, 542 1., and of Palladiua TH.-CJallifiUumoH, IIL H ed. M ill or, and is distinctly implied by a phram in a letter professedly addreaaod to him by one of the PhiloBtrati Kj, JO harOdiecrQai rts KOI rtvuiv yiyovas, I Het, therefore, no reason to doubt the Htutement, an doo. s Sehonkl 2nd ed., p. xvi. The phrase 8 iUo., . 7p jUtyi in the epigram oito l above cannot be used tVH c. ortain ovid Mi so, Iw cauHd ytyimffQatt n Sehenkl obnervoa, too frCMjuoTitly e ualn I i in tl poc tn, but, in view of tho other testimony, it in probable that nervile origin was what fhe author of it bad in mind. There inlit tie reason to think, with Martha to Afora tntw t olo, 150, that Kpictetus wan not hin real imiu, and that tho. employment of it IH iudioativo of a modeHty so real that it nought even a kind of anonymity, ninee the deHignation JH by no meann reBtrieted to ftlaven, while hi mod mty, hooaiiHo coupled with Stoic fttrai htforwftrdncw, in far removed from the shrinking humility that Hooka wolf effacsement, vii INTRODUCTION preoccupied him in his youth, that throughout his life he was obsessed with the fear of restraint, and tended to regard mere liberty, even in its negative aspect alone, as almost the highest conceivable good. It is perhaps no less noteworthy that he came from Hierapolis in Phrygia. f From of old the Phrygians had conceived of their deities with a singular intensity and entered into their worship with a passion that was often fanaticism, and sometimes downright frenzy. It is, therefore, not unnatural that the one Greek philosopher who, despite the monistic and necessitarian postulates of his philosophy, conceived of his God in as vivid a fashion as the writers of the New Testament, and almost as intimately as the founder of Christianity himself, should have inherited the passion for a personal god from the folk and land of his nativity. IW J Beside these two illuminating facts, the oilier details of his life history are of relatively little 1 importance. He was owned for a time by Rpaphro ditus, the freedman and administrative secretary ol Nero, and it was while yet in his service that he began to take lessons from Musonius Rufus, the greatest Stoic teacher of the age, whose influence was the dominant one in his career. 2 He was of 1 It in noteworthy, afl Lagran o, p.201, obwTvtw, that MontamtH, who BOOH after the time of Kipiotetuti threatened Christianity with tho invuHion of imdtHoipliued Bpiritnal graces, wan alnc ft Phrygian. a Wo many passages in Kpietetiw can be paralleled ckmely from tho remaining fragincniH of RufuH an Kpictc UiH alwayn calln him that thorc can b no tlouht but t...