PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Harry M. Hine is professor emeritus in the School of Classics at the University of St Andrews in Scotland.
From the rainbow in the heavens to the iridescent scales of a mullet dying at the gourmet's table, Seneca examines the face of God and its distorted human images to find, at the last, himself. One of the many virtues of Harry Hine's lively new translation of the Natural Questions is the variation in its registers, encompassing satire, scientific argument, moral dialogue, and epic grandeur. Backed up by an extensive critical introduction, this volume makes an auspicious beginning to the series. --C. A. J. Littlewood, University of Victoria, Canada Hine's translation is clear, elegant, and energetic, and the introduction and notes allow us to read the work within the contexts of ancient science, philosophy, culture, and literature. Most of all, by conveying both its intellectual urgency and its artfulness, this edition reveals the Natural Questions to be among Seneca's most powerful writings and in the league of such masterworks as Lucretius's De rerum natura and Virgil's Georgics. --James Ker, University of Pennsylvania, author of The Deaths of Seneca From the rainbow in the heavens to the iridescent scales of a mullet dying at the gourmet s table, Seneca examines the face of God and its distorted human images to find, at the last, himself. One of the many virtues of Harry Hine s lively new translation of the Natural Questions is the variation in its registers, encompassing satire, scientific argument, moral dialogue, and epic grandeur. Backed up by an extensive critical introduction, this volume makes an auspicious beginning to the series. --C. A. J. Littlewood, University of Victoria, Canada Hine s translation is clear, elegant, and energetic, and the introduction and notes allow us to read the work within the contexts of ancient science, philosophy, culture, and literature. Most of all, by conveying both its intellectual urgency and its artfulness, this edition reveals the Natural Questions to be among Seneca s most powerful writings and in the league of such masterworks as Lucretius s De rerum natura and Virgil s Georgics. --James Ker, University of Pennsylvania, author of The Deaths of Seneca Hine's translation is clear, elegant, and energetic, and the introduction and notes allow us to read the work within the contexts of ancient science, philosophy, culture, and literature. Most of all, by conveying both its intellectual urgency and its artfulness, this edition reveals the Natural Questions to be among Seneca's most powerful writings and in the league of such masterworks as Lucretius's De rerum natura and Virgil's Georgics . -James Ker, University of Pennsylvania, author of The Deaths of Seneca --James Ker, University of Pennsylvania, author of The Deaths of Seneca
