Seneca, In ten volumes / Loeb Classical Library

Loeb Classical Library 214/254/310/75-77/450/62/78/457, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, (Works). In ten volumes (Moral Essays, Epistles/Epistulae morales, Naturales Quaestiones, Tragedies). Translated by J. W. Basore, Frank Justus Miller, Richard M. Gummere ...

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  • Condition / Etat: very good, dust jacket with minor shelf wear, small stain / très bon état, minimes traces d'usures, petite tache.
  • Volumes : 10 volumes.
  • Binding / Reliure : original red titled cloth with fine dust jacket, cartonné avec jaquette.
  • Format : In-16 / 17 x 11 cm.
  • Pages : about 4000 pp.
  • Editor : Cambridge, Harvard University Press / London, Heinemann.
  • Date : 1978 - 1984.
  • Language / Langue: Latin and English on opposite pages / Bilingue latin et anglais.

    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’s 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. Many epistles and all his speeches are lost.

    The Loeb Classical Library edition of Seneca is in eleven volumes: his moral essays are collected in Volumes I–III; the 124 epistles in Volumes IV–VI; the tragedies in Volumes VIII and IX; and the treatises on natural phenomena, Naturales Quaestiones, in Volumes VII and X. 

    The Loeb Classical Library® is the only existing series of books which, through original text and English translation, gives access to all that is important in Greek and Latin literature. Epic and lyric poetry; tragedy and comedy; history, travel, philosophy, and oratory; the great medical writers and mathematicians; those Church fathers who made particular use of pagan culture—in short, our entire classical heritage is represented here in convenient and well-printed pocket volumes in which an up-to-date text and accurate and literate English translation face each other page by page. The editors provide substantive introductions as well as essential critical and explanatory notes and selective bibliographies.



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Condition Used - Very Good
Language United Kingdom
Illustrated No
Publicaton Date Jan 1, 1971
Year 1971
Author / Cartographer / Photographer Seneca the Elder
Editor Harvard University Press
First edition No
Signed edition No
Signed binding No
Armorial binding No
Binding / Format Hardcover
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