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Dialogues and essays / Seneca ; translated by John Davie ; with an introduction and notes by Tobias Reinhardt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
- 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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