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On benefits / Seneca ; translated by Miriam Griffin and Brad Inwood.
De Gruyter University of Chicago Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
- Series:
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D. English. 2010. Works.
- Complete works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca
- Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca
- Standardized Title:
- De beneficiis. English. 2011
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ceremonial exchange--Early works to 1800.
- Ceremonial exchange.
- Conduct of life--Early works to 1800.
- Conduct of life.
- Ethics, Ancient.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (250 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and advisor to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature. The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca is a fresh and compelling series of new English-language translations of his works in eight accessible volumes. Edited by world-renowned classicists Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C. Nussbaum, this engaging collection restores Seneca-whose works have been highly praised by modern authors from Desiderius Erasmus to Ralph Waldo Emerson-to his rightful place among the classical writers most widely studied in the humanities. On Benefits, written between 56 and 64 CE, is a treatise addressed to Seneca's close friend Aebutius Liberalis. The longest of Seneca's works dealing with a single subject-how to give and receive benefits and how to express gratitude appropriately-On Benefits is the only complete work on what we now call "gift exchange" to survive from antiquity. Benefits were of great personal significance to Seneca, who remarked in one of his later letters that philosophy teaches, above all else, to owe and repay benefits well.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Seneca and His World
- Introduction
- On Benefits
- Notes
- Textual Notes
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9786613066206
- 9781283066204
- 1283066203
- 9780226748290
- 0226748294
- OCLC:
- 710975197
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