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Epictetus - The Art of Aesthetics
Epictetus was born the son of a slave woman and spent the first 30 years of his life in chains. As a young boy, he was purchased by a man so violent and depraved that at one point he twisted epictetus leg with all his might. From this incident, epictetuss leg was shattered, and he walked with a limp the rest of his life. He began to attend the lectures of a stoic philosopher named sonius rufus,. And when epictetus was freed from slavery in his thirties, he decided to become a philosophy teacher. His lectures immediately gained a large following the poor, the affluent, the powerful. Even the future emperor