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De Brevitate Vitae (English: On the Shortness of Life) is a moral essay written by Seneca the Younger, a Roman Stoic philosopher, sometime around the

The letters of Seneca are uniquely engaging; they offer an urgent guide to Stoic self-improvement but also cast light on Roman attitudes towards slave

Lucius Annaeus Seneca speelt een centrale rol in de Romeinse literatuur en politiek. Als auteur van veel gelezen en vertaalde filosofische brieven en

This is the largest selection of Stoic philosopher and tragedian Seneca's letters currently available. In them Seneca advises his friend Lucilius on h

LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECANatuurverschijnselenEen onderzoekVertaald, ingeleid en van aantekeningen voorzien door John Nagelkerken.Aardbevingen, donder en b

Dramas by the classical playwright and philosopher are accompanied by a modern work to demonstrate the Roman's impact on the development of the traged

Seneca (ca. AD 4 65) authored verse tragedies that strongly influenced Shakespeare and other Renaissance dramatists. Plots are based on myth, but them

"It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough" De Brevitate Vitae is a moral essay written by Sene

Seneca was not only Rome's major Stoic philosopher. He was its great tragic playwright. Classics of Latin literature, Seneca's dramas also inspired th

The selections in this volume date from nearly the full span of Seneca's life: from the reign of Gaius Caligula (Consolation to Marcia, possibly On Pr

Born in 4 b.c., Seneca lived during one of the most turbulent times in Roman history. He served as tutor and then adviser to the emperor Nero, witness