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Robin Hard is the author of the Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology, as well as the translator and editor of Apollodorus' Library of Greek Mythology and Diogenes' Sayings and Anecdotes for Oxford World's Classics. He is also the translator of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, with an introduction and notes by Christopher Gill. Christopher Gill has written extensively on ancient philosophy, particularly Hellenistic and Roman ethics and psychology. He is the editor of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, translated by Robin Hard, for Oxford World's Classics.

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This is the only complete modern translation of Epictetus' Discourses, along with the Handbook and fragments. A significant work of Stoic practical ethics, the Discourses teach that the foundation of happiness lies in our hands. This accessible new translation is accompanied by...