"The Golden Sayings of Epictetus" is an adaptation of The Enchiridion, ("Manual") which is, itself a distillation of his speeches assembled by student Arrian. It's Christianified somewhat, and is generally considered a mediocre at best version.
This is the first time I'll be fully diverging from the edition of a text in T5FSOB. Instead, I'm going to use this website.
As much as possible, I try to use open source/public domain sources where possible. This is for two reasons:
1. I'm a cheap bastard, and that saves me from having to buy stuff for the blog (ignore all the books I have bought for it.)
2. I think they're valuable and try to promote/support them as much as possible.
The versions available are:
1. The original (Greek). This doesn't really seem super useful, unless I want to try to retranslate a specific section.
2. Carter: Popular, generally considered fairly accurate, but very readable.
3. Higginson: Partially descended from the Carter.
4. Walton: Adapted from Carter and Higginson.
5. Long: The "traditional" choice.
6. Matheson: Does not appear to be super popular.
7. Oldfather: Appears relatively respected.
I'll take the first couple days to compare the various versions, and hopefully lock in on one to read for the rest. I don't think I want to dance around 4 or 5 for the whole thing.
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