Dialogues and Letter

Informationen zum Autor Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c.4BC - AD65) was born in Cordoba, Spain, where he was brought up studying the traditional virtues of republican Roman life. He became a teacher of rhetoric but attracted attention for his incisive style of writing. Klappentext Accused of conspiring against the emperor Nero! Seneca was commanded to commit suicide! which he did in characteristic Stoic manner. Included in this volume are his dialogues ON THE SHORTNESS OF LIFE and ON TRANQUILITY OF MIND; also extracts from NATURAL QUESTIONS and the CONSOLATION TO HELVIA. Seneca's prose works were admired by the major literary figures of Elizabethan England. 160 pp. Zusammenfassung A selection of dialogues and letters from one of the most influential masters of Latin prose. This text includes "Consolation to Helvia" written to Seneca's mother to soothe the pain of separation, and the dialogues of "On the Shortness of Life", and "On Tranquility of Mind". Inhaltsverzeichnis Dialogues and Letters - Seneca Preface Introduction A Note on the Text Further Reading Dialogues Consolation to Helvia On Tranquillity of Mind On the Shortness of Life Letters Letter 24 Letter 57 Letter 79 Letter 110 from Natural Questions 1. praef. 1-10 [Seneca urges Lucilius to enjoy the inspiration and benefits of philosophical study] 4A.2.4-6 [The Cataracts of the Nile] 6.1.4-7 [The terrors of earthquakes] Notes Index

Product details

• Authors: C. Costa, C. D. N. Costa, Seneca, Lucius Annaeus Seneca
• Assisted by: C. D. N. Costa (Translation), C.D.N. Costa (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.05.1997
• EAN: 9780140446791
• ISBN: 978-0-14-044679-1
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Diaries, letters & journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, Classical texts, Diaries, letters and journals, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Ancient, classical and medieval texts