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Dialogues and essays / Seneca ; translated by John Davie ; with an introduction and notes by Tobias Reinhardt.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Contributor:
Davie, John, 1950-
Reinhardt, Tobias.
Series:
Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Oxford world's classics
Standardized Title:
Works. Selections
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Conduct of life--Early works to 1800.
Conduct of life.
Ethics--Early works to 1800.
Ethics.
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D--Translations into English.
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxxiii, 263 pages)
Place of Publication:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Language Note:
Text in English.
Summary:
Stoic philosopher and tutor to the young emperor Nero, Seneca wrote moral essays - exercises in practical philosophy - on how to live in a troubled world. Strikingly applicable today, his thoughts on happiness and other subjects are here combined in a clear, modern translation with an introduction on Seneca's life and philosophy.
Contents:
On providence
On anger, book 3
Consolation to Marcia
On the happy life
On the tranquillity of the mind
On the shortness of life
Consolation to Helvia
On mercy
Natural questions, book 6: On earthquakes.
Notes:
Description based on print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxix]-xxxi).
ISBN:
0-19-183836-5
1-281-76986-X
9786611769864
0-19-151762-3
OCLC:
476241151

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