PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
James Romm is the editor and translator of Seneca's How to Keep Your Cool and How to Die (both Princeton) and the author of Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero. He has written for the Wall Street Journal, the New York Review of Books, and the London Review of Books, among other publications. He is the James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics at Bard College and lives in Barrytown, New York.
In a helpful running commentary that accompanies his vigorous translation, [James] Romm glosses Seneca to mean that the best gifts are given anonymously and received gratefully. . . . For the stoically inclined, a fine vade mecum come donation time. * Kirkus Reviews * Engaging. . . . [Seneca] has seldom seemed wiser. ---Steven Donoghue, Open Letters [Romm] is very helpful in his introduction . . . [and his] short summations show a clear mastery of his material. ---Ray Morris, Classics for All Thoughtful advice. . . . How to Give is as much about receiving as it is about giving. ---John J. Miller, National Review This new translation of Seneca the Younger's De Beneficiis has insights for both givers and receivers, confirming that the questions surrounding philanthropy-and how to receive as well as to give graciously-are of enduring importance. ---Austin Detwiler, Philanthropy Daily
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