WorkEpictetus

Discourses (recorded by Arrian) or the Enchiridion

Discourses (recorded by Arrian) or the Enchiridion, Inferred

Epictetus (c. 50 CE–c. 135 CE)

InferredFuller studied Epictetus in 1826, though she did not specify whether she read the Discourses (recorded by Arrian) or the Enchiridion, his two surviving philosophical works available in English translation at that time.

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Documented 1826

Letters

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →

Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence1record

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

1810

1820

1832

1836

1844

1846

1850

1826—

Letter to Susan Prescott

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“I am studying Madame de Stael, Epictetus, Milton, Racine, and Castilian ballads, with great delight.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Inferred Fuller studied Epictetus in 1826, though she did not specify whether she read the Discourses (recorded by Arrian) or the Enchiridion, his two surviving philosophical works available in English translation at that time.