Moral Essays, Volume I

De Providentia. De Constantia. De Ira. De Clementia

Seneca, John W. Basore

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Harvard Uni.Press Academi
01 January 1928

Literary essays; History; Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500; Latin

Series: Loeb Classical Library

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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.

By: Seneca
Translated by: John W. Basore
Imprint: Harvard Uni.Press Academi
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 162mm, Width: 108mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 327g
ISBN: 9780674992368
ISBN 10: 0674992369
Series: Loeb Classical Library
Publication Date: 01 January 1928
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active