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Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics: Seneca: De otio; De brevitate vitae
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This edition, the first modern one in English, introduces undergraduates and more advanced students to the therapeutic possibilities of Seneca's Stoic philosophy. The short treatises De otio and De brevitate vitae balance each other by representing different but complementary aspects of Senecan philosophy: in De otio, one's duty to the 'active' life, in De brevitate vitae, one's duty to oneself in reclaiming life from the impositions made upon the self. The provocative Senecan message is to promote introspection in life, and to suggest the benefits of an inner existence of the personal. In addition to its literary and linguistic emphasis, ... Read more
This edition, the first modern one in English, introduces undergraduates and more advanced students to the therapeutic possibilities of Seneca's Stoic philosophy. The short treatises De otio and De brevitate vitae balance each other by representing different but complementary aspects of Senecan philosophy: in De otio, one's duty to the 'active' life, in De brevitate vitae, one's duty to oneself in reclaiming life from the impositions made upon the self. The provocative Senecan message is to promote introspection in life, and to suggest the benefits of an inner existence of the personal. In addition to its literary and linguistic emphasis, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Series
Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521588065
SKU
V9780521588065
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About Seneca
G. D. Williams is Associate Professor of Classics at Columbia University and author of Banished Voices (1994; 0521 451361).
Reviews for Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics: Seneca: De otio; De brevitate vitae
...scholarly and comprehensive...will be useful (indeed, essential) for Senecan scholars and their graduate students. -Mark Morford, University of Virginia, The Classical Outlook This excellent addition to the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics fills a great void and is hence welcome indeed. -R. Scott Smith, University of New Hampshire, New ... Read more