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Moral Essays, Volume I Vol. 1 : De Providentia. de Constantia. de Ira. de Clementia by Lucius Annaeus Seneca (1928, Hardcover)
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PublisherHarvard University Press
ISBN-100674992369
ISBN-139780674992368
eBay Product ID (ePID)329285
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Book TitleMoral Essays, Volume I Vol. 1 : De Providentia. De Constantia. De Ira. De Clementia
Number of Pages480 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1928
TopicEthics & Moral Philosophy, History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Ancient & Classical
IllustratorYes
GenreLiterary Criticism, Philosophy
AuthorLucius Annaeus Seneca
Book SeriesLoeb Classical Library
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight12 Oz
Item Length6.7 in
Item Width4.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN28-016432
Dewey Edition22
Series Volume Number214
Number of Volumes3 Vols.
Volume Number1
Dewey Decimal171.2
SynopsisTopics in Stoicism. Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BC, 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 AD 54, 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 LCL 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., In Moral Essays , Seneca 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) ca. 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.
LC Classification NumberPA6156.S4.A7 1928
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