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This bibliography is not intended to be complete. The best and most applicable texts are included.  Commentaries on the Greek and notes on the text of the Enchiridion are as complete as possible. This list will be updated frequently.


Note: ‘Enchiridion’ or  ‘Encheiridion’ (note the spelling) , ‘Handbook’, and ‘Manual’ all refer to the same work.  Foreign language book may refer to 'Epiktet' or 'Epictete' or 'Epicteteae' for 'Epictetus''

Enchiridion Greek Texts

Enchiridion Translations

Latin Translations

Early Translations and Illustrated Versions

Overview of Epictetus

Epictetus and the New Testament

Hellenistic Philosophy

Enchiridion Commentary and Introductions

Simplicius' (a neoplatonist ca. 450 A.D.) Commentary on the Enchiridion

Christian Adaptations of the Enchiridion

Other Selections from Epictetus

Bibliographies by Scholars

Enchiridion Greek Texts


Oldfather, W. A. 1926, 1928. Epictetus: The Discourses as Reported by Arrian, The Manual, and Fragments. 2 vols. Cambridge, MA: Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press.  (Still under copyright protection).
   Volume 1: InternetArchive.org  OpenLibrary.org
   Volume 2: InternetArchive.org  OpenLibrary.org


Schenkl, Heinrich. Epicteti Dissertationes ab Arriano Digestae. 1st edition 1894. Leizig: Teubner. [This contains the critical Greek text of the Discourses, Fragments and Enchiridion. Boter's 1999 critical edition (see below) has replaced the Schenkl Enchiridion critical text. Includes a very useful index verborum.  There are 120 pages of introductory material.  The appendixes contain an index of 1) names (Nominum), 2) words (Verborum – 212 pages worth!), 3) references to other authors (Locorum)  and 4) scholia.  The non-Greek text is written in Latin (the page count and appendix comes from the 1st 1894 edition).]   The original edition is available online at Google books.

 

Schenkl, Heinrich. Epicteti Dissertationes ab Arriano Digestae. 2nd edition 1916. Leizig: Teubner.  It is unclear what editorial changes have been made in regard to the 1st 1894 version.  The Greek text of from this version can be found at the following locations



*Boter, Gerard, 1999. The Encheiridion of Epictetus and its Three Christian Adaptations: Transmission & Critical Editions. Leiden: Brill. GoogleBooks Preview

Gotthelf, Johann 1756. GoogleBooks This work contains both Greek and Latin texts. It also contains notes on the text, a vocabualry list, and the Greek scholia (The only place I've found the scholia).


Thurot, Charles 1903. Epictete, Manuel. Texte Grec.  Precede d'une Introduction, Accompagne de notes et suivi d'un lexique des mots techniques qui se trouvent dans l'ouvrage. Par Charles Thurot. Nouvelle Edition. Paris: Librairie Hachette Et Cie. 1903.  The book is a little pamphlet - Loeb size - with some of the smallest print I have ever seen. 35 pages of introduction and 71 pages of notes.  It has no French parallel translation of the Enchiridion. (pdf) A French translation of the Enchiridion in an earlier version of Epictete Manuel by the same author can be found at Gallica; The French of the Enchiridion begins on pg. 35.

Schweighauser, Johann 1799. Epicteteae Philosophica Monumenta vol. III. Leipzig. GoogleBooks The Greek text is the source of Schenkl's text - it is identical. (pdf: pp. 12-67; text 3-62). The Google text is hard to read. The Latin text edited by Wolf is below the Greek text and critical apparatus.

Enchiridion Translations

Seddon, Keith. 2005. Epictetus' Handbook and the Tablet of Cebes. Guides to Stoic Living. Routledge: New York. The best modern day commentary on the Enchridion. Includes an English translation of each section before the commentary on the text. WorldCat Amazon. See the Commentary section below.

Carter, Elizabeth. 1910. The Discourses of Epictetus. London: Dent & Sons. [Also includes the Enchiridion and fragments; first published in 1758]


Hard, Robin. 1995. The Discourses of Epictetus. edited, with introduction and notes, by Christopher Gill. London: Everyman/ Dent.  [Includes the complete Discourses, the Handbook, and Fragments.] The notes are very minimal.


Higginson, Thomas Wentworth. 1890. (Reprinted 1944, 1948) The Works of Epictetus Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, The Enchiridion, and Fragments. Boston: Little, Brown, & Company. Seddon-Geocities Perseus-Hopper


Long, George. 1848, 1877, 1991, 2004. The Discourses of Epictetus with the Encheiridion and Fragments. Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing. PTypes Perseus-Hopper GoogleBooks


Matheson, P. E. 1916, 2004 Epictetus: The Discourses and Manual. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
    Volume 1: InternetArchive.org
    Volume 2: InternetArchive.org
    LetsReadGreek (Enchiridion only -pdf file 1.4 meg)

 
Matson, Wallace 1. 1998. Epictetus: Encheiridion. In Louis P. Pojman, ed. 1998. Classics of Philosophy: Volume 1, Ancient and Medieval. New York: Oxford University Press. WorldCat


Pierce, Ulysses G. 13. 1916. The Creed of Epictetus. Boston, MA: Beacon Press. GoogleBooks.


Rolleston, T. W. 1881. The Enchiridion of Epictetus. Oxford University Press.. GoogleBooks.

Rolleston, T. W. 1892. The Teaching of Epictetus. Being the ‘Encheiridion of Epictetus’, with Selections from the ‘Dissertations’ and ‘Fragments’. London: George Routledge. GoogleBooks (for just the Enchiridion, see the previous listing).

White, Nicholas P. 1983. Handbook of Epictetus: Translated, with introduction and annotations. Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hacket Publishing Company. ISBN: 0-915145-69-3 (pbk.) 0-87220-049-3 (cloth). WorldCat This is an excellent translation. The concise introduction is a great place to begin.

Latin Translations

Wolf Hieronymus. 1560. Wolf's translation became the standard. The Latin parallel translation in Schweighauser's Philosophia Monumenta vol. III is the translation of Wolf (Wolfus). It can be found online in GoogleBooks or on in the pdf extract of the Enchiridion by Schweighauser on the LetsReadGreek (1.7 meg) wesbite.

Politian 1493. This translation was the standard Latin translation (although not as accurate as Perotti) until Wolf's appeared in 1560.

Naogeorgus Th. Strassburg 1554.

Upton. The famous Latin translation by Upton is almost identical to the Latin translation of Heyne (see Heyne below).

Ivie 1715. Epicteti Enchiridion Latinis versibus adumbratum. This is the Latin translation (and Greek) text presented in the copy owned and signed by John Adams. The pictures on the front page of the Enchiridion Study group are from this book. InternetArchive

Meibom.

Perotti. Oliver, Revilo Pendleton, 1954. Niccolo Perotti's Version of the Enchiridion of Epictetus edited, with an introduction and a list of Perotti's writings. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. WorldCat

Heyne, Christian Gottlob (or Gottlieb). 1756. Epicteti Enchiridium Graece et Latine cum scholiis Graecis nunc primum e Bibliotheca Regia Dresdensi vulgatis et novis animadverionibus. Cum lege S. Mai. Reg. Elect. ne quis fals. eff. Dresdai et Lipsiae, Impensis Mich. Grollii MDCCLVI. GoogleBooks This work contains both Greek and Latin texts. The Latin translation is almost identical to Upton's. See Oldfather nos. 252-257. It also contains Latin notes on the Greek text (both subject, textual, and notes on the Greek idiom), a vocabualry list, and the Greek scholia (The only place I've found so far where the scholia are listed).

Early Translations and Illustrated Versions

Ivie, Edward. 1715 Epicteti Enchiridion Latinis versibus adumbratum (MDCCXV [1715]). Oxoniæ : E Theatro Sheldoniano, MDCCXV. Impensis H. Clements, ad Insigne Lunae Falcatae in Coemetero D. Pauli, Londini. Contributed by the John Adams Library at the Boston Public Library. You can download or read this book at the Internet Archive. It's got a neat looking text and it is signed by John Adams himself. The picture of 'Epictetus at the Table' on the home page and the beginning of chapter one are images from this book.

Boyer, William 1716. Epicteti Enchiridion. The Morals of Epictetus made English in a poetical paraphrase. London: S. Keble and R. Gosling. GoogleBooks

Overview of Epictetus

Long, A. A. 2002.  Epictetus, A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life.  Oxford University Press, New York. WorldCat


Theodore Scaltsas (Editor), Andrew S. Mason (Editor).  2008.  The Philosophy of Epictetus.  Oxford University Press, 2008. A collection of 10 specially written papers on various topics presented at a conference in 2001. WorldCat 

Pierce, Ulysses Grant Baker, 1916. The Creed of Epictetus Beacon Press: Boston. GoogleBooks.

Epictetus and the New Testament

Sharp, Douglas S. 1914.  Epictetus and the New Testament.  Charles H. Kelly: London. (Forward by James Hope Moulton). WorldCat (pdf)


Bonhöffer, Adolf. 1911. Epiktet und das Neue Testament: Giessen (1964), Töpelmann, (1911)

Hellenistic Philosophy

Long, A. A. and D. N. Sedley, The Hellenistic Philosophers, 2 vols.  (Cambridge, 1987).  Volume 1 includes translations with the principle sources, with philosophical commentary.  Volume 2 gives the corresponding Greek and Latin texts with notes and bibliography.  (There are very few selections from Epictetus – only two from the Enchiridion). If you want to read important selections from the original authors (in English or the original language), this is the book for you.
Vol 1: Worldcat Link
Vol 2: Worldcat Link

Long, A. A. 2006 From Epicurus to Epictetus: Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy.  Oxford University Press, 2006.  Chapter 18: Epictetus on understanding and managing emotions. WorldCat

Long, A. A. 1986 2nd edition. Hellenistic Philosophy: Stoics, Epicureans, Sceptics. Berkley: University of California Press. ISBN: 0-520-05807-0 cloth; ISBN: 0-520-05808-9 paper. WorldCat

Enchiridion Commentary and Notes

Seddon, Keith. 2005. Epictetus’ Handbook and the Tablet of Cebes. Guides to Stoic Living.  Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group: New York, New York. (Supplemented by Louis Sorenson) WorldCat Amazon This is a modern-day translation and stoic homiletic commentary on the Enchiridion and another associated Greek text. There are numerous glossaries and indexes, the most important being a glossary of terms. The Greek text is not directly addressed, but the Greek vocabulary is. This work builds upon the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy article on Epictetus by the same author.

Simplicius Commentary

Simplicius: Commentaire sur le manuel d'Epictete.  Introduction et edition critique du text grec par Ilsetraut Hadot.  From the series Philosophia Antiqua.  Volume LXVI.  E.J. Brill: Leiden, New York Koln 1996.  ISSN: 0079-1687  ISBN: 90 04 0977204  (French again - but, of course, the text is Greek)
   Volume 1: Chapters I-XXVI Worldcat link
   Volume 2: Chapters XXVII-LIII Worldcat link

Simplicius On Epictetus' Handbook 1-26.  Translated by Charles Brittain & Tad Brennen.  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York. 2002 ISBN: 0-8014-3904-3

Simplicius On Epictetus' Handbook 27-53.  Translated by Charles Brittain & Tad Brennen.  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York. 2002 ISBN: 0-8014-3905-1

Schweighauser, Johann. 1800. Simplicii Comentarius in Epicteti Encheiridion Accedit Enchiridii Paraphrasis Christiana et Nili Enchiridion. Leipzig: 1800 GoogleBooks

 

Christian Adaptations

Spanneut, Michel. 2007. Commentaire sur la Paraphrase chrétienne du Manuel d'Epictète. France: Les Editions du Cerf (http://www.editionsducerf.fr). A commentary on the christian adaptations of the Enchiridion. (cf. Boter's book) Worldcat

*Boter, Gerard, 1999. The Encheiridion of Epictetus and its Three Christian Adaptations: Transmission & Critical Editions. Leiden: Brill.

Other Works of Epictetus

The Golden Sayings of Epictetus   @InternetArchive

Landor, Walter Savage, 1853. Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans. London: Edward Moxon. Epictetus and Seneca is on pp. 466 and following. GoogleBooks.


Bibliogrphies by Scholars

Oldfather, W. A. 1927. Contributions Toward A Bibliography of Epictetus Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Oldfather spent much of his life studying Epictetus, hunting down manuscripts, finding various editions and reprintings of the same author, etc. While the name of the work says 'A bibliography of Epictetus,' this and the following book are really almost entirely 'a bibliography of the Encheiridion.' He organizes the various books on Epictetus into Greek Text, English Translations, Latin Translations, ancient commentaries, etc. He also includes a numbering system for cataloguing all the books. A supplement containing corrections and addenda was printed posthumously in 1952.

Oldfather, W. A. 1952. Contributions Toward A Bibliography of Epictetus: A Supplement. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. (See comments on the previous entry).

*Boter, Gerard, 1999. The Encheiridion of Epictetus and its Three Christian Adaptations: Transmission & Critical Editions. Leiden: Brill. This work includes an Bibliography listing: I. A short list of important printed editions of 'The Authentic Encheiridion', Nilus' adaptation and Paraphrasis christiana. II. Catalogues of Manuscripts. III. Other works. Works not listed by Oldfather (post 1952) can be found in the last two pages of this book - the bibliography focus on the Greek critical text.

Seddon, Keith. 2005. Epictetus’ Handbook and the Tablet of Cebes. Guides to Stoic Living.  Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group: New York, New York. This book contains an extensive bibliography. If you are looking for a wide range of sources that are current, look here. Seddon includes a great number of philosophical bibliographic resources.

Long, A. A. 2002.  Epictetus, A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life.  Oxford University Press, New York. WorldCat This work also contains a very extnesive and up to date bibliography. It focuses more on the Disources rather than on the Enchiridion.