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The stoic philosophy of Seneca

Seneca the Younger

  • 261 pages · about 4 hours
  • First published 1958
  • 5 editions
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1 About this book

The present volume offers an introduction to Seneca and a fresh translation of selected essays which possess continuing relevance for the ethical problems of the individual.

Good for readers who want: Stoic philosophy and philosophy.

  • Stoics
  • Ancient Philosophy
  • Philosophy

2 About Seneca the Younger

 

Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger ( SEN-ik-ə; c. 4 BC – AD 65), usually known mononymously as Seneca, was a Stoic philosopher of Ancient Rome, a statesman, a dramatist, and in one work (Apocolocyntosis) a satirist from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature. Seneca was born in Colonia Patricia Corduba in Hispania, and was trained in rhetoric and philosophy in Greece.

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