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Moral Essays, Volume II
De Consolatione ad Marciam. De Vita Beata. De Otio. De Tranquillitate Animi. De Brevitate Vitae. De Consolatione ad Polybium. De Consolatione ad Helviam
Series: Loeb Classical Library
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This volume is ideal for readers interested in classical philosophy, Stoicism, and Roman history. It suits scholars, students, and anyone seeking timeless ethical guidance and personal reflection from one of antiquity's most influential thinkers.
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.
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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (modern Cordova) around 4 BCE, hailed from a prominent and wealthy family. He spent an ailing childhood and youth in Rome under the care of his aunt. Seneca gained fame in rhetoric, philosophy, business, and imperial service. Although he experienced some disgrace during the reign of Claudius, he later became the tutor and, from 54 CE, the advising minister to Nero, failing to prevent some of Nero's worst actions. Allegedly implicated (though possibly innocent) in a conspiracy, Seneca was ordered to take his own life in 65. Despite his wealth, he preached indifference to material wealth; although he avoided pain and death, he scorned both, illustrating other contradictions between his practice and principles.
We possess Seneca's philosophical or moral essays (ten traditionally called Dialogues) focusing on themes such as providence, steadfastness, the happy life, anger, leisure, tranquility, the brevity of life, gift-giving, and forgiveness, as well as treatises on natural phenomena. Additionally, 124 epistles survive in which he discusses moral and ethical questions in a relaxed style, often relating them to personal experiences. He also wrote a skit on Claudius' official deification, Apocolocyntosis (featured in Loeb no. 15), and nine rhetorical tragedies based on ancient Greek themes. Unfortunately, many epistles and all his speeches have been lost.
His moral essays are compiled in Volumes I–III of the Loeb Classical Library's ten-volume edition of Seneca.
Series: Loeb Classical Library
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ISBN: 9780674992801
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 01 January 1932
Country: United States
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Illustration: Index
Contributors:
- Translated by John W. Basore
- Translated by John W. Basore
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 28.0mm
Width: 108.0mm
Height: 162.0mm
Weight: 318g
Pages: 512
About the Author
John William Basore (b. 1870) was Professor of Classics at Princeton University.
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