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Classical Stuff You Should Know

179: The Enchiridion, by Epictetus

Classical Stuff You Should Know

A.J. Hanenburg

Christianity, Education, Books, Religion & Spirituality, Arts

4.5696 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The writings of Epictetus are some of the only stoic manuscripts that survive. The Enchiridion is his essential handbook for the budding acolyte of Stoicism.

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Hi and welcome to Classical Stuff

0:11.8

You Should Know, a podcast about classical education, old stuff, old books, the ancient world, and the not so ancient world done by us.

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My name is Graham Donaldson, and I am joined with Thomas Magby and AJ Hanenberg.

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Right here.

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And we podcast about, oh my word, we do this.

0:35.2

This is what we do.

0:36.5

I just realized I was about to repeat everything I just said. three times a day. You're like, did I say this already? They're like, yeah. You're like, oh, sorry, kids.

0:56.0

Do they normally point it out to you when you say it twice in class?

0:57.8

Usually I will, it's not necessarily saying

1:00.0

the same thing twice.

1:00.9

It's, I will say something

1:01.9

and then instantly rephrase it

1:03.6

another way because a lot of the time

1:06.1

and then I won't get it the first time.

1:07.5

Anyway, so based on the notes, we're doing what looks like, like some sort

1:11.4

of new Japanese video game. And Kyridian. Yeah. Or an expansion, an expansion of a current

1:19.8

video game. I don't know, Final Fantasy 20 in Karidian or something. Oh, that sounds like an actual

1:25.6

thing. That would be fun. Yeah. So we are doing the N-Kiridian.

1:29.3

It is a, if you're a fan of Adventure Time, it is the manual for how to be a hero, but

1:33.3

if you're not a fan of Adventure Time, the cartoon?

1:35.3

No, I don't know what you knew.

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