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

Name: 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
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ISBN: 9780674992801

ISBN-10: 0674992806

ISBN-13: 9780674992801

Edition: 1932 (Revised)

Authors: Seneca, John W. Basore

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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…

Book details

Copyright year: 1932
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 1/1/1932
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 512
Size: 4.25" wide x 6.37" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



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