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2018, Mnemosyne
A short note discussing whether Meditations 11.39 is a fragment from Epictetus.
Epictetus: Discourses, Fragments, Handbook, newly translated by Robin Hard and commented by Christopher Gill, is the newest English rendering of the famous Stoic. This Oxford World's Classic version is based on the 1925 Oldfather Loeb Greek text and not a revision of any English edition. Overall, Oxford World's Classics' recent English offering of Epictetus' corpus is a tastefully thorough rendition of the Imperial Roman philosopher's contribution to classical culture. This book could appropriately find itself into an undergraduate survey of ancient philosophy, a Roman culture course, or even onto an aspiring graduate student's bookshelf as an introduction to one of the big names of antiquity.
Epictetus’ Enchiridion opens with “Of things some are in our power, and others are not. In our power are opinion, movement toward a thing, desire, aversion (turning from a thing)…; not in our power are the body, property, reputation, offices” . He distinguishes actions that one can call their own and actions one cannot, respectively. Hadot in The Inner Citadel identifies the actions within one’s power as the disciplines of desire, action, and assent. Though the ideas presented in the disciplines, sometimes called fields of study, are not new ideas to Stoicism, it is Epictetus who formulates them as aforementioned. , In writing Meditations, Marcus Aurelius had an opportunity to reflect and to strengthen his ideology and even discussed ideas from other schools of philosophy, e.g. whether the world operated based on Epicurus’ atomism or the Stoic understanding of the Universe—“Either a stew, an intricate web, and dispersal into atoms: or unity, order, and providence” . Epictetus’ Disciplines can be seen as a tool to assist in one’s personal development in line with Stoicism. The purpose of this paper is to explore and analyze Epictetus’ Three Disciplines, based on the texts Enchiridion and Discourses, and to identify Epictetus’ influence on Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations.
2017 •
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Robert F. Dobbin, Epictetus: Discourses. Book 1. Translation and commentary.1999 •
Dobbin’s main contention is that while Adolph Bonhöffer’s two books “continue to be valuable, because his method was mainly sound” (xiv), Bonhöffer went too far in trying to make Epictetus’s thought conform in all respects to that of Zeno and Chrysippus. Epictetus’s teacher Musonius Rufus, Cynicism, and Panaetius’s emphasis on social roles also shaped Epictetus’s philosophy, Dobbin contends, but not as pervasively as Plato and Socrates. Dobbin also sees Epictetus attacking both Skeptics and neo-Aristotelians by appropriating concepts from their philosophies and putting them to use in his own polemics. The commentary is generally excellent. But despite the dust jacket’s claim to the contrary, it frequently assumes knowledge of Greek and Latin (and sometimes French) and would be difficult for the average undergraduate to use. Both novice readers and scholars of Epictetus will welcome this volume. They can hope, perhaps, that eventually commentaries of comparable quality will be written on the other three books of the Discourses.
In: "The Limits of Exactitude in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Literature and Textual Transmission", ed. by N. Bruno, G. Dovico, Olivia Montepaone and M. Pelucchi, Berlin-Boston, De Gruyter («Trends in Classics – Supplementary Volumes» 137), 2022, pp. 231-267 The present paper aims to analyze the citations of Heraclitus in Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations. I shall, in particular, try to shed light on the complex dynamics of tradition and innovation which characterize Marcus’ approach to the figure and to the tenets of the Ephesian. In the first place, I shall show that the mentions of the Ephesian in the Meditations mirror the decisive importance and reputation enjoyed by the Presocratic in the Imperial period, when he came to embody the ideal of the Stoic sage. I shall then deal with the key chapter 4.46, where the majority of Heraclitean citations is to be found. Given the complexity of this passage, I shall propose a possible approach to it through the case study of Marcus Aurelius’ quotation of Heraclitus’ alleged fragment B75 at 6.42. In the last part of the paper, I shall highlight the relevance of the Stoic exegetical tradition by pointing out two crucial aspects which link the readings put forward in the Meditations to the interpretation of Heraclitus of the earlier Stoa and perhaps even to its commentary tradition on the Presocratic.
1992 •
Classical Quarterly
“Epicurus and the iuvenis at Vergil’s Eclogue 1.42”, CQ 66.1 (2016) 172-1792016 •
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