 About 93 A.D. Emperor Domitian banished all philosophers from the city, and Epictetus went to Nicopolis in Epirus, Greece, where he founded a philosophical school.His most famous pupil, Arrian, studied under him when a young man (ca.AD 108) and claimed to have written the famous "Discourses" from his lecture notes, which he argued should be considered comparable to the Socratic literature.