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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.