Are the Freedmen Teaching Other Freed Men Without Exception?

When it comes to slaves I think I want to urge the same sort of caution about attributing too much to philosophy. The star case clearly as you mentioned is Epictetus who was of serval origin allegedly born a slave and certainly on his own testimony already receiving philosophical instruction from Muzonia's Rufus while still a slave. But he's a freedman before he actually sets up as a teacher in his own rights when he leaves Rome and goes off to Nicopolis. And if you then look at the people who are coming to his lectures coming to be haranged by him about their various personal failings they are all members of the elite. So it really doesn't look as if