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Epictetus is very good in general. If you find a good modern translation (Robin Hard is good), I emphatically recommend reading the discourses. Don't cheap out
by marginalia_nu 4y ago
Epictetus is very good in general.
If you find a good modern translation (Robin Hard is good), I emphatically recommend reading the discourses. Don't cheap out and suffer through some stuffy 19th century translation.
- genghisjahn 4y agoEpictetus, Marcus Aurelius and Seneca are all excellent reads.
- slothtrop 4y agoAt the other end of the spectrum, I've suffered through some overly-simplified/modernized translations of fiction (e.g. Dostoevsky's the Gambler) that was complete butchery, but I guess this is less likely to occur with non-fiction.