In 55 C.E. a well-known Greek Stoic philosopher by the name of Epictetus was born. As a young boy, Epictetus grew up in Hierapolis, Phrygia which is now known as the modern day western Turkey. By some means, he disembarked in Rome as a slave under Emperor Nero. While he was a slave he learned and studied from Musonius Rufus, a Roman Stoic Philosopher. After his master Nero died, his sentence of being a slave was over. Epictetus became a teacher and lectured in Rome. Soon after, he had to leave due to the “Edict of Domination” (Graver 1) which prohibited philosophers in the Italian peninsula. As he fled from Rome he settled in Nicopolis, Greece where he opened a philosophical school and continued to lecture Stoic philosophy. Epictetus taught
