# Epictetus

> A slave who became one of antiquity's sharpest philosophers, teaching that you control nothing in the world except how you respond to it.

*Greek Stoic philosopher (c. 50–c. 138)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** Turkey
- **Born:** 50
- **Died:** 138
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born into slavery around 50 AD in Phrygia, Epictetus studied Stoic philosophy under Musonius Rufus in Rome. After gaining his freedom, he began teaching that philosophy wasn't abstract theory but a daily practice — external events lie beyond our grasp, but our own actions and reactions belong entirely to us, subject to rigorous self-discipline. When Emperor Domitian expelled philosophers from Rome near the century's end, Epictetus moved to Nicopolis in northwestern Greece and founded a school. He wrote nothing himself; his student Arrian recorded his teachings in the Discourses and Enchiridion. Those texts reached across centuries to shape Marcus Aurelius, Pascal, Montesquieu, and a long trail of thinkers wrestling with what they could and couldn't control.

## Fame
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## Topics
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