Research Catalog

Title

Seneca : fifty letters of a Roman Stoic / Lucius Annaeus Seneca ; translated with an introduction and commentary by Margaret Graver and A. A. Long.

Author

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

Publication

• Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

• Graver, Margaret
• Long, A. A.

Description

xxxi, 307 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and advisor to the Emperor Nero. Seneca's writings are read by scholars, students, and innumerable individuals interested in how philosophy can influence our daily lives. This volume collects 50 of Seneca's most important, popular, and interesting letters."--

Uniform Title

Epistulae morales ad Lucilium. Selections. English. 2021

Alternative Title

• Epistulae morales ad Lucilium. 2021
• Fifty letters of a Roman Stoic
• Letters of a Roman Stoic

Subject

• Ethics > Early works to 1800
• Stoics > Early works to 1800
• Ethics
• Stoics

Genre/Form

• Early works.
• Informational works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction / Margaret Graver and A.A. Long -- Taking charge of your time -- A beneficial reading program -- Trusting one's friends -- Intimacy within friendship -- Avoiding the crowd -- Writing as a form of service -- Friendship and self-sufficiency -- Blushing -- Visiting a childhood home -- Safety in a dangerous world -- Exercises for the body and the voice -- Daily study and practice -- The Saturnalia festival -- Consistency -- How reading can make you famous -- Real joy is a serious matter -- An Epicurean on his deathbed -- Our mind's godlike potential -- The use of philosophical maxims -- Fewer words achieve more -- Oratory and the philosopher -- God dwells within us -- A book by Lucilius -- The evils of slavery -- Remembering old times -- A bad experience at sea
• A near-fatal asthma attack -- Noisy lodgings above a bathhouse -- A dark tunnel -- A conversation about Plato -- Consolation for the death of a friend -- Some analyses of causation -- Ending one's own life -- What it means to make progress -- Only the honorable is good -- A trip around Sicily brings thoughts of glory -- Heavy drinking -- The writer's craft -- The rustic villa of Scipio Africanus -- The beginnings of civilization -- A terrible fire at Lyon -- A trial in the time of Cicero -- Why travel cannot set you free -- Vegetarianism and the use of literature -- A difficult pupil -- Is virtue an animate creature? -- The Stoic view of emotion -- Self-awareness in animate creatures -- Resisting external influences -- The criterion for the human good.

Call Number

JFD 22-1305

ISBN

• 9780226782768
• 022678276X
• 9780226782935
• 022678293X

LCCN

2021009510

OCLC

1241244555

Author

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

Title

Seneca : fifty letters of a Roman Stoic / Lucius Annaeus Seneca ; translated with an introduction and commentary by Margaret Graver and A. A. Long.

Publisher

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Graver, Margaret, translator, writer of supplementary textual content.

Long, A. A., translator, writer of supplementary textual content.

Research Call Number

JFD 22-1305