SENECA, Lucius Annaeus

A student's Seneca : ten letters and selections from de providentia and de vita beata / Lucius Anaeus Seneca, with notes and commentary by M. D. Usher - Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2006. - xxiv, 181p. ; 22cm.

Includes bibliography

The letters of Seneca are uniquely engaging among the works that have survived from antiquity. They offer an urgent guide to Stoic self-improvement but also cast light on Roman attitudes towards slavery, gladiatorial combat and suicide. This selection of letters conveys their range and variety, with a particular focus on letters from the earlier part of the collection. As well as a general introduction.

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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus,-- approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.-- Correspondence.

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