Quiz: Epictetus

When was Epictetus born?

• About 50, Hierapolis, in what is now Turkey, enslaved in Rome.
• 106 BC, Arpinum, Italy.
• About 515 BC, Elea, in southern Italy.
• About 310 BC, in the state of Zhao, China.

When did Epictetus die?

• About 135, Nicopolis, Greece.
• About 450 BC.
• About 286 BC.
• 270, in Campania, Italy.

What is Epictetus known for?

• The division of things into what is up to us and what is not, the core of his handbook Enchiridion.
• Atoms and the void as the explanation of all change, and an ethics of cheerfulness.
• The claim that human nature is bad, that ritual reshapes it, and that Heaven is just nature running its course.
• The Meditations, twelve books of self examination, and the last of the Five Good Emperors.

Which school of thought was Epictetus part of?

• Stoicism, freed from theory into practice.
• Legalism, the doctrine of the strong state.
• Daoism, its skeptical and literary wing.
• Atomism, developed from his teacher Leucippus.

True or false: Stoic teacher born a slave at Hierapolis, in modern Turkey, who won his freedom and taught at Nicopolis in Greece.

• True
• False