About the book
Epictetus was born a slave and taught that nobody could govern a man who wanted nothing they controlled. He wrote none of it down; his student Arrian did. This edition prints Arrian's handbook — the complete Enchiridion, all fifty-two chapters — first, as the shorter way in, then the sixty-eight Discourses George Long selected in 1877, arranged into seven thematic parts instead of the unbroken sequence Long printed. The text is Long's, unaltered. Around it: a 3,000-word introduction, an introduction to each part, a head-note on every one of the 120 chapters, a glossary of the eighteen terms Epictetus uses technically and English hides, a biographical index of the people he names without introducing, a chronology, an index of thirty-four subjects generated from the text, and a concordance to the Meditations listing the four passages where George Long's two translations touch — and the two he cites that turned out not to be in this selection. 176 pages, 6 × 9 in.
