Sources and credits

Greek text. Epicteti dissertationes ab Arriano digestae, editio maior, edited by Heinrich Schenkl, Leipzig, Teubner, 1916. Taken from the Perseus Digital Library (Tufts University), URN urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0557.tlg001.perseus-grc2.

English translation. George Long, The Discourses of Epictetus, with the Encheiridion and Fragments, London, George Bell and Sons, 1890. Taken from the Perseus Digital Library, URN urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0557.tlg001.perseus-eng3. The footnotes are Long's own and are printed in full at the end of each discourse.

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Italian translation. Produced by GPT-5.6 Sol, with the assistance of Claude Opus 5.0, from Schenkl's Greek text; completed in 2026.

Cover illustration. Generated with AI for this edition.