ARRIAN'S DISCOURSES

OF EPICTETUS

IN FOUR BOOKS

BOOK III

Chapters of the Third Book

I. Of personal adornment. In this chapter, Epictetus discusses the difference between outward beauty and the "beauty" of the human reason.
II. The fields of study in which the man who expects to make progressprokopsanta: a student who is actively advancing toward Stoic wisdom rather than just studying theory will have to go into training; and that we neglect what is most important.
III. What is the subject-matter with which the good man has to deal; and what should be the chief object of our training?
IV. To the man who took sides, in an undignified manner, while in a theatre. Epictetus often used contemporary social situations, like the rowdy behavior of fans at the theater, to illustrate a lack of self-control.
V. To those who leave school because of illness. original footnote: "s: πλαττομένους S." — A textual note indicating a variation between manuscripts; one suggests 'those who pretend to be ill' while the other refers to 'those departing because of illness'.
VI. Some scattered sayings.
VII. A conversation with the Imperial Bailiffdiorthōtēn: a high-ranking Roman official sent to oversee the administration of "free" Greek cities of the Free Cities, who was an EpicureanA follower of Epicurus, whose philosophy emphasized pleasure and the absence of pain, often putting them at odds with the duty-bound Stoics.
VIII. How ought we to exercise ourselves to deal with the impressionsphantasias: the mental images or "appearances" of things that strike our minds before we choose how to react to them of our senses?
IX. To a certain rhetorician who was going to Rome for a law-suit.
X. How ought we to bear our illnesses? This chapter title was reconstructed by later editors as it was missing from some early versions of the list.
XI. Some scattered sayings.
XII. Of trainingaskēseōs: the rigorous practical "exercise" or discipline of the mind and desires.
XIII. The meaning of a forlorn stateerēmia: a state of being alone or abandoned; Epictetus distinguishes between physical solitude and true helplessness, and the kind of person a forlorn man is.
XIV. Some scattered sayings.