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24 titles for readers of Discourses and Selected Writings by Epictetus, selected for shared themes: Greece, History & Surveys, Ancient & Classical, and Ancient.

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Conversations of Socrates — Xenophon

Conversations of Socrates

Themes: Greece • History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical

Theaetetus — Plato

Themes: Greece • History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical

Ricerche Platoniche (1876) — Felice Tocco

Ricerche Platoniche (1876)

Themes: Greece • History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical

The Histories — Herodotus

Themes: Greece • History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical

The History of Sexuality: 2 The Use of Pleasure — Michel Foucault

The History of Sexuality: 2 The Use of Pleasure

Michel Foucault

Themes: Greece • History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical

The Greek Sophists — John Dillon

The Greek Sophists

Themes: Greece • History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical

Ancient Greece A Political, Social, and Cultural History — Sarah B. Pomeroy

Ancient Greece A Political, Social, and Cultural History

Sarah B. Pomeroy

Themes: Greece • History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical

Greek Philosophy — Reginald E. Allen

Greek Philosophy

Reginald E. Allen

Themes: Greece • History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical

Out of One, Many Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture — Jennifer T. Roberts

Out of One, Many Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture

Jennifer T. Roberts

Themes: Greece • History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical

The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece — Josiah Ober

The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece

Themes: Greece • History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical

Stolen Legacy — George G. M. James

George G. M. James

Themes: Greece • History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical

On the Heavens — Aristotle

Themes: Greece • History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical

Anabasis The Persian Expedition (Royal Collector’s Edition) (Annotated) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) — Xenophon

Anabasis The Persian Expedition (Royal Collector’s Edition) (Annotated) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)

Themes: Greece • History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical

Plato’s Republic A Biography — Simon Blackburn

Plato’s Republic A Biography

Simon Blackburn

Themes: Greece • History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical

The Pocket Stoic — John Sellars

The Pocket Stoic

Themes: Greece • History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical

The Last Days of Socrates — Plato

The Last Days of Socrates

Themes: Greece • History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical

Egypt, Greece, and Rome Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean — Charles Freeman

Egypt, Greece, and Rome Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean

Charles Freeman

Themes: Greece • History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical

The Greeks and the Irrational — Eric Robertson Dodds

The Greeks and the Irrational

Eric Robertson Dodds

Themes: Greece • History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical

Archilochus The Poems : Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary — Laura Swift

Archilochus The Poems : Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary

Themes: Greece • History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical

Early Greek Philosophy — Various

Early Greek Philosophy

Themes: Greece • History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical

Anaximander and the Origins of Greek Cosmology — Charles H. Kahn

Anaximander and the Origins of Greek Cosmology

Charles H. Kahn

Themes: Greece • History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical

The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Comedy — Michael Fontaine

The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Comedy

Michael Fontaine

Themes: Greece • History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical

Thucydides and the Pursuit of Freedom — Mary P. Nichols

Thucydides and the Pursuit of Freedom

Mary P. Nichols

Themes: Greece • History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical

Telamonian Ajax The Myth in Archaic and Classical Greece — Sophie Marianne Bocksberger

Telamonian Ajax The Myth in Archaic and Classical Greece

Sophie Marianne Bocksberger

Themes: Greece • History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Greece, History & Surveys, Ancient & Classical — the same threads that run through Discourses and Selected Writings by Epictetus. Among the authors featured: Xenophon, Plato, Felice Tocco, Herodotus, and others.

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