Natural Questions, Volume I by Seneca, Thomas H. Corcoran - 9780674994959

Name: Natural Questions, Volume I by Seneca, Thomas H. Corcoran - 9780674994959
Brand: Harvard University Press

Harvard University Press

Natural Questions, Volume IBooks 13\nAuthor(s): Seneca, Thomas H. Corcoran\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Harvard University Press, United States\nImprint: Harvard University Press\nISBN-13: 9780674994959, 978-0674994959\nSynopsis\nFollowing nature in pursuit of ethics.\n\nSeneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BC, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunts care. He became famous in rhetoric, philosophy, money-making, and imperial service. After some disgrace during Claudius reign he became tutor and then, in AD 54, advising minister to Nero, some of whose worst misdeeds he did not prevent. Involved (innocently?) in a conspiracy, he killed himself by order in 65. Wealthy, he preached indifference to wealth; evader of pain and death, he preached scorn of both; and there were other contrasts between practice and principle.\n\n We have Senecas philosophical or moral essays (ten of them traditionally called Dialogues)on pro.