Synopsis
Epictetus
Published by Cyberpress
4 Male 1 Female
It's 135 CE, in the City of Nicopolis
Arrian, Governor of Cappadocia, has come to eulogize the Stoic philosopher Epictetus, in the open air and at the very spot where Arrian was a student of Epictetus thirty years previous
In flashback, we meet Epictetus teaching a group of young men Stoic philosophy and interacting with curious citizens
And a woman who is - against her will - abandoning her baby
Epictetus offers to raise the baby as his own ...
One-act
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