Epistles . Volume I, / / Seneca
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| Autore: |
Seneca
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| Titolo: |
Epistles . Volume I, / / Seneca
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, MA : , : Harvard University Press, , 1917 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (496 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 871.01 |
| Soggetto topico: | Rome |
| Poetry | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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, tranq. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Epistles |
| ISBN: | 0-674-99084-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 996214861603316 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
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