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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

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

"So it is: we are not given a short life but we are wasteful of it... Life is long if you know how to use it." "But life is very short and anxious fo

PREFACE A book in the writer's possession, entitled "Camp Cookery," contains the following recipe: "Boiled Green Corn.-Boil twenty-five minutes,

A selection of dialogues and letters from one of the most influential masters of Latin prose. This text includes "Consolation to Helvia" written to Se

This volume offers translations of the most important of Seneca's 'Moral Essays': On Anger, On Mercy, On the Private Life and the first four books of

This edition of Letters from a Stoic, otherwise known as Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium contains the three volumes of correspondence between the elderl

"So it is: we are not given a short life but we are wasteful of it... Life is long if you know how to use it.""But life is very short and anxious for

It is this kind of droll surprise that drew me to undertake the translation of a work that is not, I freely confess, well known."-David Slavitt