{ "item_title" : "Epictetus Greatest Maxims Explained", "item_author" : [" Daniel Bulmez "], "item_description" : "Born a slave. Lame for most of his life. Exiled from Rome. He spent the rest of his life teaching people how to be free.Epictetus never wrote a word. He taught in a schoolroom in Nicopolis, in Greece, and his student Arrian wrote down what he heard: the Discourses, and the short handbook known as the Enchiridion. Marcus Aurelius read him and quoted him. His starting point is still the most useful idea in Stoicism: some things are in your power and some are not, and most suffering comes from mixing them up.Much of what circulates online as Epictetus is not his. The classic translation used here prints the translator's own one-line summaries in the margins, 723 of them, and because they read like perfect maxims they get quoted as if Epictetus said them. Epictetus Greatest Maxims Explained removes every one, along with fragments the edition itself marks as doubtful. What is left is Epictetus.95 passages from the Discourses, the Enchiridion and the Fragments. 9 chapters. One lesson a day.Every lesson gives you two pages: The passage, word for word from the public-domain P. E. Matheson translation, cited by Discourse, Enchiridion chapter or FragmentThe interpretation: what he actually meant, in plain language, and where it applies in your life todayToday's practice: one concrete thing to do about it before the day is overInside, chapters on: What is in our powerImpressions, desire and aversionTraining and practiceDeath, loss and what you can bearFreedom and the part you are givenOther people, and angerReputation, and talking about philosophyGod, providence and the bodyExamining yourself, and what things costPerfect for: Readers of Marcus Aurelius and Seneca who want the teacher behind themAnyone who has read the Enchiridion and wants it explainedPeople who worry about what they cannot control and want to stopReaders who want a daily Stoic practice, not just quotesA gift for graduations, birthdays and hard seasonsYou cannot choose most of what happens to you. Epictetus taught what you can.Read one lesson. Do the practice. Take back the part that is yours.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers2.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/99/771/878/1997718782_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "11.62", "online_price" : "11.62", "our_price" : "11.62", "club_price" : "11.62", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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