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Selected Letters / Seneca ; translator, Elaine Fantham.
- Title
- Selected Letters / Seneca ; translator, Elaine Fantham.
- Author
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
- Publication
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | B615 .A4 2010 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Fantham, Elaine
- Description
- 314 p.; 20 cm.
- Summary
- "The letters written by the Stoic philosopher and tragedian Seneca to his friend Lucilius are in effect moral essays, whose purpose is to reinforce Lucilius' struggle to achieve wisdom and serenity, uninfluenced by worldly emotions. Seneca advises his friend on how to do without what is superfluous, whether on the subject of happiness, riches, reputation, or the emotions. The letters include literary critical discussions, moral exhortation, exemplary heroes and episodes from Roman history, and a lurid picture of contemporary luxury. We learn about Seneca's household and estates and about life in the time of Nero; the topic of death is never far away."--Pub. desc
- Series Statement
- Oxford world's classics
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Personal correspondence
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Latin.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction -- Note on the text -- Select bibliography -- A chronology of Lucius Annaeus Seneca -- Selected letters -- Appendix : Excerpts from the lost Book XXII preserved by Aulus Gellius -- Explanatory notes.
- ISBN
- 9780199533213 (pbk.)
- 0199533210 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 465364112
- SCSB-12882370
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library