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Dialogues and Letters »
Authors: Seneca, C. D. N. Costa
ISBN-13: 9780140446791, ISBN-10: 0140446796
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Date Published: November 1997
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Seneca
Book Synopsis
Accused of conspiring against the emperor Nero, Seneca was commanded to commit suicide, which he did in characteristic Stoic manner. Included in this volume are his dialogues ON THE SHORTNESS OF LIFE and ON TRANQUILITY OF MIND; also extracts from NATURAL QUESTIONS and the CONSOLATION TO HELVIA. Seneca's prose works were admired by the major literary figures of Elizabethan England. 160 pp.
Table of Contents
| Preface | ||
| Introduction | ||
| A Note on the Text | ||
| Further Reading | ||
| Dialogues | ||
| Consolation to Helvia | 3 | |
| On Tranquillity of Mind | 29 | |
| On the Shortness of Life | 59 | |
| Letters | ||
| Letter 24 | 87 | |
| Letter 57 | 93 | |
| Letter 79 | 95 | |
| Letter 110 | 100 | |
| from Natural Questions | ||
| 1 praef. 1-10 [Seneca urges Lucilius to enjoy the inspiration and benefits of philosophical study] | 107 | |
| 4A.2.4-6 [The Cataracts of the Nile] | 110 | |
| 6.1.4-7 [The terrors of earthquakes] | 112 | |
| Notes | 114 | |
| Index | 121 |
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