The Handbook of Epictetus
Further Reading
Editions, translations, and scholarship for reading further.
Epictetus, Discourses, Fragments, Handbook, trans. Robin Hard (Oxford World’s Classics, 2014) – the complete surviving Epictetus in one modern volume.
Epictetus, The Handbook, trans. Nicholas White (Hackett, 1983) – a spare, accurate rendering with a fine short introduction.
W. A. Oldfather, Epictetus (Loeb Classical Library, 2 vols., 1925–28) – facing Greek and English for the whole corpus.
Gerard Boter, The Encheiridion of Epictetus and Its Three Christian Adaptations (Brill, 1999) – the critical edition of the Greek text.
A. A. Long, Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life (Oxford, 2002) – the best single study of the philosophy.
Elizabeth Carter, All the Works of Epictetus (1758) – the first complete English Epictetus, still worth reading.
Simplicius, On Epictetus’ Handbook, trans. Charles Brittain and Tad Brennan (2 vols., Bloomsbury, 2002) – the sixth-century commentary.
James B. Stockdale, Courage Under Fire: Testing Epictetus’s Doctrines in a Laboratory of Human Behavior (Hoover Institution, 1993) – the Handbook in a Hanoi prison.