Research Catalog

Title

Seneca / with an English translation by John W. Basore [and 3 others].

Author

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D

Publication

• Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 1917-2004.
• The Maple-Vail Book Manufacturing Group, [date of manufacture not identified]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Basore, John W. (John William), 1870-
• Gummere, Richard M. (Richard Mott), 1883-1969
• Corcoran, Thomas H.
• Fitch, John G.

Description

10 volumes : illustrations; 17 cm

Summary

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca 4 B.C. of a noble and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunt's care. He was victim of life-long neurosis but became famous in rhetoric, philosophy, money-making, and imperial service. After some disgrace during Claudius' reign he became tutor and then, in A.D. 54, advising minister to Nero, some of whose worst misdeed he did not prevent. Involved (innocently?) in a conspiracy, he killed himself by order in A.D. 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.

Series Statement

Loeb classical library ; 62, 75-78, 214, 254, 310, 450, 457

Uniform Title

• Works. English & Latin
• Loeb classical library ; 62, etc.

Alternative Title

Works.

Subjects

• Political ethics > Early works to 1800
• Mythology, Classical > Drama
• Conduct of life > Early works to 1800
• Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D > Translations into English
• Latin drama (Tragedy)
• Science > Early works to 1800

Note

• Volumes 8-9, new edition, published 2002, 2004 (new translation by John G. Fitch supplants Frank Justus Miller's previous translation).

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Language (note)

• Latin and English on opposite pages; introduction, notes and commentaries in English.

Contents

[Volume] I-III. Moral essays / with an English translation by John W. Basore -- [volume] IV-VI. Epistles, 1-124 / with an English translation by Richard M. Gummere -- [volume] VII. Natural questions, books 1-3 / with an English translation by Thomas H. Corcoran -- [volume] VIII. Tragedies: Hercules ; Trojan women ; Phoenician women ; Medea ; Phaedra / edited and translated by John G. Fitch -- [volume] IX. Tragedies: Oedipus ; Agamemnon ; Thyestes ; Hercules on Oeta ; Octavia / edited and translated by John G. Fitch -- [volume] X. Natural questions, books 4-7 / with an English translation by Thomas H. Corcoran

Call Number

PA6156

ISBN

• 9780674992368
• 0674992369
• 9780674992801
• 0674992806
• 9780674993433
• 0674993438
• 9780674990845
• 0674990846
• 9780674990852
• 0674990854
• 9780674990869
• 0674990862
• 9780674994959
• 0674994957
• 9780674996021
• 067499602X
• 9780674996106
• 0674996100
• 9780674995031
• 0674995031

OCLC

958709062

Author

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D, author.

Title

Seneca / with an English translation by John W. Basore [and 3 others].

Publisher

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 1917-2004.

Manufacturer

Volumes 1-8, 10 : [Place of manufacture not identified] : The Maple-Vail Book Manufacturing Group, [date of manufacture not identified]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Loeb classical library ; 62, 75-78, 214, 254, 310, 450, 457

Loeb classical library ; 62, etc.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Language

Latin and English on opposite pages; introduction, notes and commentaries in English.

Added Author

Basore, John W. (John William), 1870- translator.

Gummere, Richard M. (Richard Mott), 1883-1969, translator.

Corcoran, Thomas H., translaor.

Fitch, John G., editor, translaor.

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D. Tragedies. English & Latin.

Research Call Number

*R-RMRR PA6156 .S462