Seneca: Selected Dialogues and Consolations
"An excellent tool for students and teachers of Latin literature and Stoic philosophy."
—Aldo Dinucci, in Archai
Seneca's dialogues--as his epistolary essays have traditionally been known--offer an ideal path into the philosophical thought of first-century Rome's most famous Stoic, whose compelled suicide in 65 CE (by order of his former pupil Emperor Nero) drew comparisons to the death of Socrates. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781624663680
- Utgivelsesår
- 2015
- Format
- 22 x 14 cm
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"An excellent tool for students and teachers of Latin literature and Stoic philosophy."
—Aldo Dinucci, in Archai
"Were I to include Seneca in a course on the Renaissance or on the Roman origins of our liberal arts ideal I would use Peter Anderson's new translation. The Introduction is excellent: readable and comprehensive. I especially like his discussion of the challenge of translating what he calls Seneca's six key words and their cognates. His lucid overview of the philosophical ideas that informed Seneca's thinking will help readers ponder nature and humanity, the cosmos and the polis, from within Seneca's mind and times. The translation can on occasion be nicely graphic, and thus likely to engage first-time readers, as for example in one of the opening lines of the Consolation to His Mother Helvia: '. . . I kept crawling along (reptare), trying to bind your wounds while I used one hand to keep pressure on mine (manu super plagam meam imposita).'"
—Robert E. Proctor, Joanne Toor Cummings '50 Professor of Italian, Connecticut College