Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Auct. T. 4. 13, fol. 132r — opening of Discourses IV.1, On Freedom, in Greek minuscule, 11th century

Discourses, Books I–II

Reading companion and full text of Epictetus: Discourses, Books I–II, translated by W. A. Oldfather — Loeb Classical Library volume 131, first published in 1925 by Harvard University Press and William Heinemann, presenting the first two of the four surviving books of Arrian's record of Epictetus's classroom teaching, with the original Greek on facing pages, notes, and a substantial introduction to the philosopher's life and thought.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Auct. T. 4. 13, fol. 132r — opening of Discourses IV.1, On Freedom, in Greek minuscule, 11th century

Discourses, Books III–IV · Encheiridion · Fragments

Reading companion and full text of Epictetus: Discourses, Books III–IV, with the Encheiridion and Fragments, translated by W. A. Oldfather — Loeb Classical Library volume 218, first published in 1928 by Harvard University Press and William Heinemann, completing the four surviving books of Arrian's record of Epictetus's teaching and adding the Encheiridion and the principal surviving fragments, with Greek text on facing pages and editorial notes throughout.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Auct. T. 4. 13, fol. 132r — opening of Discourses IV.1, On Freedom, in Greek minuscule, 11th century

A Selection from the Discourses, with the Encheiridion

Reading companion and full text of A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus, with the Encheiridion, translated by George Long — drawn from Long's complete 1877 translation and presented here in the 1890 G. P. Putnam's Sons edition, gathering the most essential of the surviving discourses alongside the complete Encheiridion, the brief handbook of Stoic principles that Arrian distilled from his teacher's classroom and that has never ceased to be read.

Brescia, Biblioteca Queriniana, ms. B.II.6 (Codex Quirinianus), fol. 1r — opening of the second collection of the Epistulae Morales, 11th–12th century

Epistles 93–124

Reading companion and full text of Seneca's Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, Volume VI (Epistles 93–124), translated by Richard M. Gummere — the concluding portion of Seneca's great letter-collection, written in the final years of his life under Nero, addressing questions of death, virtue, the good life, the value of precepts, and the relationship between philosophy and action.

15th-century Byzantine Greek manuscript page of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics with a colorful decorated headpiece and cursive minuscule script.

Nicomachean Ethics

A reading companion for Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics — the seminal work exploring the nature of happiness and the cultivation of human excellence.