Announcing: Epictetus Deep-Dive
Starting next Thursday, I’ll be commencing a series of weekly emails based on the Stoic Handbook or Enchiridion of Epictetus. Everyone signed up to my existing newsletter will receive these. (Although you can opt-out if you wish.) I’m calling it the Epictetus Deep-Dive email course because I’ll be discussing each passage in turn, exploring how the Stoic wisdom it contains might be applied in the modern world. It will form the first phase of my new Behind the Scrolls column, exclusively for the paying subscribers among you.
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This sequence will contain original content based upon a revised edition of my earlier “Epictetus Handbook Email Course”, which over six thousand people have completed.
There are 53 passages, which you'll receive one at a time in weekly emails, with my comments underneath. The edition used is the classic 1928 translation by William Abbott Oldfather, which is now in the public domain.
The passages vary considerably in length, from one sentence to several long paragraphs. (So I've split some up further.) The Handbook opens with one of its longest, and most famous passages, which you'll receive via email from my Behind the Scrolls column next Thursday.
If you're interested in delving even deeper into Stoicism, check out my books How to Think Like a Roman Emperor and Verissimus: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius.
Thanks for taking part and I hope you enjoy the emails!
Regards,
Donald Robertson
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