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37. Robin Waterfield on Epictetus

Philosophy as a Way of Life

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How Does Epictetus Compare With Other Translators?

How does it compare with other translators? Other authors are translatable as chiefly Plato. How would you compare if it is piety and the importance of God or he's talked about God to other Greek philosophers if you're translating? And there I think Plato was just as devout a person to God or his conception of God. But he's less I mean, as I keep saying Epictetus is very in your face. He's very bruised and abrupt.

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