Epistles, Volume II (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Latin
Antal sidor
496
Utgivningsdatum
1920-01-01
Förlag
LOEB
Översättare
Richard M Gummere
Originalspråk
Latin
Illustrationer
Index
Volymtitel
Volume II
Dimensioner
170 x 115 x 25 mm
Vikt
320 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780674990852

Epistles, Volume II

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Meditative missives. Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BC, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunts care. He became famous in rhetoric, philosophy, money-making, and imperial service. After some disgrace during Claudius reign he became tutor and then, in AD 54, 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 Senecas 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, forgivenessand 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 LCL 15); and nine rhetorical tragedies on ancient Greek themes. Many epistles and all his speeches are lost. The 124 epistles are collected in Volumes IVVI of the Loeb Classical Librarys ten-volume edition of Seneca.
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Richard Mott Gummere (18831969) taught Latin at Haverford College and served as Headmaster of the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia and Dean of Admissions at Harvard College.

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