Moral essays

Author(s)

• Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
• Basore, John W.

Bibliographic Information

Moral essays

Seneca ; with an English translation by John W. Basore

（The Loeb classical library, 214, 254, 310）

W. Heinemann , G.P. Putnam, 1928-1935

• 1 : us
• 1 : uk
• 2 : us
• 2 : uk
• 3 : us
• 3 : uk

Note

Latin text and English translation on opposite pages

Later printing published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press (1958, v.1, 3) and reprinted in 1994 (v. 1), 1990 and 1996 (v. 2), 1989 (v. 3) by Harvard University Press only

Later printing "Seneca in ten volumes ; 1-3"; 1994 printing (v. 1), 1990, 1996 printing (v. 2) not appears

Bibliographical note added in 1979 (v. 2, p. xi)

Includes indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BCE, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunt's care. He became famous in rhetoric, philosophy, money-making, and imperial service. After some disgrace during Claudius' reign he became tutor and then, in 54 CE, 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 Seneca's 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, forgiveness and 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 Loeb number 15); and nine rhetorical tragedies on ancient Greek themes. Many epistles and all his speeches are lost. His moral essays are collected in Volumes I III of the Loeb Classical Library's ten-volume edition of Seneca.

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Details

• NCID: BA01019085
• ISBN:
  • 0674992369
  • 0434992143
  • 0674992806
  • 0434992542
  • 0674993438
  • 0434993107
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: englat
• Original Language Code: lat
• Place of Publication: London,New York
• Pages/Volumes: 3 v.
• Size: 17 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC7 : 131.56
  • NDLC : KE211
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00254115