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Handbook (Enchiridion)
Ἐγχειρίδιον Ἐπικτήτου
Fifty-three short chapters condensing Epictetus' ethics as rules of conduct. It opens with the division "of things, some are up to us and others are not", goes on to the maxim that we are disturbed not by things but by our judgements about them (5), life as a role in a play written by another (17), the banquet at which one takes moderately what comes (15), piety (31) and the signs of one who is making progress (48), and ends with lines of Cleanthes and Euripides and words of Socrates. It has been the most read text of Epictetus since late antiquity: Simplicius commented on it, Byzantine monks adapted it, Poliziano translated it into Latin (1479) and el Brocense (1600) and Quevedo (1635) into Spanish.
Authorship note
A digest of Epictetus' teaching prepared by Arrian from the Discourses, according to Simplicius. The title means "what is kept at hand" (also "dagger"). It is not a work by Epictetus in the strict sense, but it gathers his doctrine, often in the very words of the Discourses.
Editions and translations
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English
Discourses, Fragments, Handbook
Oxford University Press (Oxford World's Classics), 2014
Translation: Robin Hard
ISBN 9780199595181
Introducción y notas de Christopher Gill.
The Handbook (The Encheiridion)
Hackett Publishing, 1983
Translation: Nicholas P. White
ISBN 9780915145690
Epictetus: The Discourses as Reported by Arrian, the Manual, and Fragments (Loeb Classical Library)
Harvard University Press / Heinemann, 1928
Translation: W. A. Oldfather
ISBN 9780674992405
El registro de Open Library no indica el volumen; por el contenido corresponde al vol. II (LCL 218: libros III–IV, Manual y fragmentos), publicado en 1928.
Epictetus
The Discourses of Epictetus; with the Encheiridion and Fragments
The Conscious LibraryThe Discourses of Epictetus; with the Encheiridion and Fragments
George Bell and Sons; Wikisource, 1877
Translation: George Long
Dominio público.
Epictetus
The Enchiridion
The Conscious LibraryThe Enchiridion
Project Gutenberg, 1865
Translation: Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Dominio público.
Español
Epictetus
Dotrina del estoico filósofo Epicteto, que se llama comúnmente Enchiridion
The Conscious LibraryDotrina del estoico filósofo Epicteto, que se llama comúnmente Enchiridion
Salamanca, 1600
Translation: Francisco Sánchez de las Brozas (el Brocense)
Primera traducción castellana impresa; registrada en Open Library.
Epictetus
Epicteto y Phocílides en español con consonantes
The Conscious LibraryEpicteto y Phocílides en español con consonantes
Madrid (por María de Quiñones, a costa de Pedro Coello), 1635
Translation: Francisco de Quevedo
Paráfrasis en verso.
Epictetus
Enquiridión
The Conscious LibraryEnquiridión
Biblioteca Clásica (Obras de los moralistas griegos); Wikisource, 1888
Translation: Antonio Brum (según Wikisource)
Fecha de muerte del traductor no verificada.
Epictetus
Enquiridión
The Conscious LibraryEnquiridión
Anthropos / Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, 1991
Translation: José Manuel García de la Mora
ISBN 9788476583197
Estudio introductorio, traducción y notas; en apéndice, la paráfrasis en verso de Quevedo.
Manual · Fragmentos
Gredos (Textos clásicos), 2021
Translation: Paloma Ortiz García
ISBN 9788424939663
Prólogo de Antonio Cascón Dorado.
Other works by Epictetus
- Discourses (as reported by Arrian) · 108
- Discourses, Book I · 108
- Discourses, Book II · 108
- Discourses, Book III · 108
- Discourses, Book IV · 108
- Fragments
- Discourses, Books V–VIII (lost) · 108
- Conversations (lost)
- Life and Death of Epictetus (by Arrian, lost)
- Debate of the Emperor Hadrian and the Philosopher Epictetus
- Christian paraphrases of the Handbook
- Simplicius' Commentary on the Handbook · 530
Sources
- Epicteto. Disertaciones (por Arriano) y Manual. Texto griego en Wikisource en griego; trad. inglesa de George Long, The Discourses of Epictetus; with the Encheiridion and Fragments (Londres: George Bell, 1877), en Wikisource en inglés.
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