'I must die. But must I die bawling?' Epictetus, a Greek stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in Nicropolis in the early second century AD. His animated discussions were celebrated for their rhetorical wizardry and were written down by Arrian, his most famous pupil. Together with the Enchiridion , a manual of his main ideas, and the fragments collected here, The Discourses argue...