On Benefits

Informationen zum Autor Miriam Griffin is emeritus fellow in ancient history at Somerville College, Oxford. She is the author of Seneca: A Philosopher in Politics and Seneca on Society: a Guide to "De Beneficiis ", among other books. Brad Inwood is professor of philosophy and classics at Yale University. He is the author of Reading Seneca: Stoic Philosophy at Rome, among other books. Klappentext Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and advisor to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature. The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca is a fresh and compelling series of new English-language translations of his works in eight accessible volumes. Edited by world-renowned classicists Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C. Nussbaum, this engaging collection restores Seneca-whose works have been highly praised by modern authors from Desiderius Erasmus to Ralph Waldo Emerson-to his rightful place among the classical writers most widely studied in the humanities. On Benefits , written between 56 and 64 CE, is a treatise addressed to Seneca's close friend Aebutius Liberalis. The longest of Seneca's works dealing with a single subject-how to give and receive benefits and how to express gratitude appropriately- On Benefits is the only complete work on what we now call "gift exchange" to survive from antiquity. Benefits were of great personal significance to Seneca, who remarked in one of his later letters that philosophy teaches, above all else, to owe and repay benefits well. Zusammenfassung Part of the Complete Works series! this title! written between 56 and 64 CE! is a treatise addressed to Seneca's close friend Aebutius Liberalis. It is the longest of Seneca's works dealing with a single subject - how to give and receive benefits and how to express gratitude appropriately.

Product details

• Authors: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Seneca Lucius Annaeus
• Assisted by: Miriam Griffin (Translation), Griffin Miriam (Translation), Brad Inwood (Translation), Inwood Brad (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.09.2014
• EAN: 9780226212227
• ISBN: 978-0-226-21222-7
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca; The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca; Complete Works of Lucius Annae; Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca (CHUP)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500