| Description |
1 online resource (253 pages) |
| Series |
Hackett Classics |
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Hackett classics.
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| Contents |
Front Cover; Title Page; copyright page; dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; On Providence; On the Resolute Nature of the Wise Man; Consolation to Marcia; On the Happy Life; On Retirement; On Serenity of the Spirit; On the Shortness of Life; Consolation to Polybius; Consolation to His Mother Helvia; Select Biographical Information for Key Individuals; Glossary of Latin Words Used More Than Once; Index of Historical Persons; Back Cover |
| Summary |
Seneca's dialogues--as his epistolary essays have traditionally been known--offer an ideal path into the philosophical thought of first-century Rome's most famous Stoic, whose compelled suicide in 65 CE (by order of his former pupil Emperor Nero) drew comparisons to the death of Socrates. Notable for, among other things, their portrait of a providential universe and defense of the life of virtue, the nine dialogues included in this volume illustrate the deeply intertwined cosmological and moral arguments of ancient Rome's chief philosophical alternative to Epicureanism and Academic Skepticism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D. -- Translations into English
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| SUBJECT |
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D. fast |
| Subject |
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Ancient & Classical.
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| Genre/Form |
Translations
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Anderson, Peter J., 1970- translator, author of introduction, etc, commentator for written text.
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| ISBN |
9781624663703 |
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1624663702 |
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