... or even all of the time. He wanted to show his students "that there is a reason for this being the case and most importantly that there are solutions that can remedy this situation." Another aim of Epictetus' teaching was to live well to secure for oneself true happiness. Epictetus' theory had to fall on the ears of a receptive audience and he found that in the school he formed for upper-class Romans. With students such as Flavius Arrian, and Herodes Atticus, Epictetus was considered "the greatest of Stoics." Epictetus was said to relate his school to the workings of a hospital where students would come to seek treatments for their ills. In stark reality that was true, people flocked to Epictetus' schools because it gave them a solvent to the trials of human life and living in society. Every day they were set up with frustrations and obstacles ...

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