Fall Asleep to the Life of Epictetus, the Slave Who Became a Stoic Philosopher | Full Documentary

"Let not sleep fall upon your weary eyes until you have gone over each deed of the day." Epictetus loved to repeat those old lines to his students. He was born a slave in a hot-spring town of Asia Minor, walked with a limp all his life, served in the house of one of Nero's freedmen in Rome — and became the teacher of freedom whose words an emperor would one day keep beside him. In this calm, full-length Epictetus documentary for sleep, follow his life from the white terraces of Hierapolis to the crowded streets of Rome, the lessons of the Stoic Musonius Rufus, a small bare room with a straw mat and a clay lamp, the emperor's edict that sent the philosophers away, and the quiet school by the sea at Nicopolis, where a young man named Arrian wrote down every word. The story is drawn from the Discourses and the Handbook recorded by Arrian, and from the few later writers who remembered him. Epictetus wrote nothing himself, and little about his life is certain; where a tale is only a story, the narration says so. Perfect for lovers of Stoicism, ancient philosophy, Roman history, Marcus Aurelius and Seneca, history for sleep, and relaxing documentaries to fall asleep to. Chapters 0:00:00 Welcome 0:09:03 The Town of White Terraces 0:18:31 The Road to Rome 0:28:32 A Slave in a Great House 0:38:18 Musonius 0:47:57 What Is Ours 0:57:25 A Free Man 1:06:52 The Edict 1:16:07 The City of Victory 1:25:25 The Students 1:34:51 Arrian's Notebooks 1:44:04 The Iron Lamp 1:53:02 The Ship at Anchor 2:02:30 The Child 2:12:03 A Day Gone Over If these quiet evenings are a comfort to you, you are welcome to subscribe, and to tell us in the comments where you are listening from and whose life you would like to hear next. #epictetus #stoicism #historyforsleep #biographyforsleep #sleepdocumentary #philosophyforsleep