The Classroom of EpictetusA place of practice, not a quote machine.
What the Classroom is doing
The public examination on the homepage asks what appeared, retrieves relevant passages from the corpus, and shows the references used. From there, a student can move into the Library, then into the Classroom's interpretive Principles and training Practices.
Signed-in students keep persistent examinations in their record so work can continue rather than disappearing after every visit.
Primary text comes first
The verified v1 Library currently publishes material from the Discourses and the Enchiridion already present in the Classroom corpus. Fragments are not presented as complete until a verified source and parser are added.
Who is speaking?
The public examination is an AI teaching interface written to reason in the philosophical framework associated with Epictetus. It is not the historical Epictetus resurrected, and it should not be treated as an infallible scholarly authority.
When the system cites a primary text, the reference is intended to let the student inspect the underlying passage rather than trust the interface blindly.
What the Classroom is not
It is not therapy, medical care, legal advice, financial advice, or a substitute for qualified professional help. It is also not designed to flatten every difficulty into the slogan “focus on what you control.”
The Classroom distinguishes judgement, assent, desire and aversion, action, roles, externals, and character because Epictetus is more demanding—and more interesting—than a motivational poster.
How Epictetus is shown
The Classroom does not put a face in front of the teaching. What you meet first is the text — Enchiridion 1, in Greek and in translation. The only image is a small marble seal in the masthead: a portrait bust made long after Epictetus's lifetime, not a contemporary likeness, and never a generated scene standing in for his school. If an illustrated representation is ever added, it will be marked as a teaching illustration, not a historical reconstruction.
Corrections are welcome
If a citation does not resolve, a source looks wrong, or an interpretation overstates what the text supports, report it to the Classroom. Source traceability is part of the product, not decoration.