Author: Lucius Annaeus SenecaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Moral Essays: De providentia ; De constantia ; De ira ; De clementia
Author: Lucius Annaeus SenecaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
De Constantia Sapientis
Author: Charles Desmond Nuttall CostaPublisher:
ISBN: 9780856685606
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The Dialogues were an important medium for the spreading of Greek philosophical theories to the Roman world and to subsequent ages. This selection is of complete, not excerpted, dialogues. The commentary concentrates on subject matter and the philosophical ideas informing the treatises, though help is also given where needed on grammatical and lexical points. The four chosen dialogues give a fair idea of the range of Seneca's philosophical interests and of his didactic techniques. This is the first serious commentary in English on any of Seneca's Dialogues since Duff (1915). Latin text with facing translation, commentary and notes.
Seneca: Moral essays
Author: Lucius Annaeus SenecaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : la
Pages : 480
Book Description
Seneca: Moral and Political Essays
Author: Lucius Annaeus SenecaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521348188
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
This volume offers clear and forceful contemporary translations of the most important of Seneca's 'Moral Essays': On Anger, On Mercy, On the Private Life and the first four books of On Favours. They give an attractive, full picture of the social and moral outlook of an ancient Stoic thinker intimately involved in the governance of the Roman empire in the mid first century of the Christian era. A general introduction describes Seneca's life and career and explains the fundamental ideas underlying the Stoic moral, social and political philosophy that informs the essays. Individual introductions, footnotes and biographical notes place the essays in their historical and philosophical contexts, and further assistance to students is provided by section headings in the translations which organize the principal transitions in the argument and the more unfamiliar aspects of Seneca's writing.
Dialogues and Essays
Author: Lucius Annaeus SenecaPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199552401
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Stoic philosopher and tutor to the young emperor Nero, Seneca wrote moral essays - exercises in practical philosophy - on how to live in a troubled world. Strikingly applicable today, his thoughts on happiness and other subjects are here combined in a clear, modern translation with an introduction on Seneca's life and philosophy.
Seneca Moral Essays (Volume I)
Author: Lucius Annaeus SenecaPublisher:
ISBN: 9789354031878
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Anger, Mercy, Revenge
Author: Lucius Annaeus SenecaPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226748537
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE–65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and adviser to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature. The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca is a fresh and compelling series of new English-language translations of his works in eight accessible volumes. Edited by world-renowned classicists Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C. Nussbaum, this engaging collection restores Seneca—whose works have been highly praised by modern authors from Desiderius Erasmus to Ralph Waldo Emerson—to his rightful place among the classical writers most widely studied in the humanities. Anger, Mercy, Revenge comprises three key writings: the moral essays On Anger and On Clemency—which were penned as advice for the then young emperor, Nero—and the Apocolocyntosis, a brilliant satire lampooning the end of the reign of Claudius. Friend and tutor, as well as philosopher, Seneca welcomed the age of Nero in tones alternately serious, poetic, and comic—making Anger, Mercy, Revenge a work just as complicated, astute, and ambitious as its author.
Seneca's Morals by Way of Abstract
Author: Lucius Annaeus SenecaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Moral Letters to Lucilius
Author: Lucius Annaeus Lucius Annaeus SenecaPublisher:
ISBN: 9781536965537
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
The moral letters to Lucilius are a collection of 124 letters, written by Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC-AD 65), spanning a wide variety of moral problems. Written during his retirement after serving as both tutor and advisor to the emperor Nero, Seneca offers his unique form of stoicism.This edition contains all 124 letters by Seneca and fragments quoted by Aulus Gellius.
Moral Essays: De consolatione ad Marciam. De vita beata. De otio. De tranquillitate animi. De brevitate vitae. De consolatione ad Polybium. De consolatione ad Helviam
Author: Lucius Annaeus SenecaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
In Moral Essays, Seneca (c. 4-65 CE) expresses his Stoic philosophy on providence, steadfastness, anger, forgiveness, consolation, the happy life, leisure, tranquility, the brevity of life, and gift-giving. Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) circa 4 BCE, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunt's care. He became famous in rhetoric, philosophy, money-making, and imperial service. After some disgrace during Claudius' reign he became tutor and then, in 54 CE, advising minister to Nero, some of whose worst misdeeds he did not prevent. Involved (innocently?) in a conspiracy, he killed himself by order in 65. Wealthy, he preached indifference to wealth; evader of pain and death, he preached scorn of both; and there were other contrasts between practice and principle. We have Seneca's philosophical or moral essays (ten of them traditionally called Dialogues)-on providence, steadfastness, the happy life, anger, leisure, tranquility, the brevity of life, gift-giving, forgiveness- and treatises on natural phenomena. Also extant are 124 epistles, in which he writes in a relaxed style about moral and ethical questions, relating them to personal experiences; a skit on the official deification of Claudius, Apocolocyntosis (in Loeb number 15); and nine rhetorical tragedies on ancient Greek themes. Many epistles and all his speeches are lost. His moral essays are collected in Volumes I-III of the Loeb Classical Library's ten-volume edition of Seneca.