Seneca

Seneca: Moral and Political Essays (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume offers clear and forceful contemporary translations of the most important of Seneca's 'Moral Essays': On Anger, On Mercy, On the Private Life and the first four books of On Favours. They give an attractive, full picture of the social and moral outlook of an ancient Stoic thinker intimately involved in the governance of the Roman empire in the mid first century of the Christian era. A general introduction describes Seneca's life and career and explains the fundamental ideas underlying the Stoic moral, social and political philosophy that informs the essays. Individual introductions, footnotes and biographical notes place the essays in their historical and philosophical contexts, and further assistance to students is provided by section headings in the translations which organize the principal transitions in the argument and the more unfamiliar aspects of Seneca's writing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 1995
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139698399
• Artikelnr.: 53400267

Autorenporträt

Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger usually known as Seneca, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and, in one work, satirist, from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: 1. Seneca's life and works
2. The Epistulae Morales and their addressee
3. Letters as a genre
4. Stoic terms and concepts
5. Stoic background
6. Other philosophical influences
7. Ethical focus and techniques of the self
8. Seneca and earlier Latin poetic authors
9. Senecan style
10. Clauslae in Seneca
11. Reception of the letters
12. The selection
13. The text
Epistulae Morales: Letter 1
Letter 7
Letter 12
Letter 18
Letter 21
Letter 24
Letter 33
Letter 34
Letter 46
Letter 47
Letter 53
Letter 64
Letter 70
Letter 86
Letter 90
Letter 114
Commentary.