Lucius Annaeus Seneca: Letters From A Stoic, Essays, and Tragedies - Couverture souple

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus; Miller, Frank

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ISBN 10 : 1521887225 ISBN 13 : 9781521887226

Editeur : Independently published, 2017

Synopsis

This complete collection of Lucius Annaeus Seneca’s life works was painstakingly crafted and tailored, containing an active table of contents for convenient travel throughout the massive eBook. Seneca was an infamous Roman stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and humorist. If the reader is a stoic enthusiast, this collection is right for you. This collection contains the following works:1.Complete Letters From A Stoic (All 124 Letters)2.The Complete Essays of Seneca: On The Shortness of Life, On Benefits, On the Happy Life, On Firmness, On Leisure, On Mercy, On Providence, On the Tranquility of Mind, On Anger (On Wrath), Seneca’s three Consolatory works, and the rare “Pumpkinification of Claudius”3.The Complete Tragedies of Seneca: Agamemnon, Hercules, Hercules Oetaeus I & II, Medea, Oedipus, Phaedra, Phoenissae, Thyestes, and TroadesThe Letters From A Stoic or The Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Latin for "Moral Letters to Lucilius"), is a collection of 124 letters which were written by Seneca the Younger at the end of his life, during his retirement, and written after he had worked for the Emperor Nero for fifteen years. They are addressed to Lucilius, the then procurator of Sicily, although he is known only through Seneca's writings. Whether or not Seneca and Lucilius actually corresponded, scholars are largely of the opinion that Seneca created the work as a form of fiction. In these letters, Seneca gives Lucilius advice on how to become a more devoted Stoic.Throughout Seneca’s Essays, Seneca generally employed a pointed rhetorical style. His writings expose traditional themes of Stoic philosophy: the universe is governed for the best by a rational providence; contentment is achieved through a simple, unperturbed life in accordance with nature and duty to the state; human suffering should be accepted and has a beneficial effect on the soul; study and learning are important. He emphasized practical steps by which the reader might confront life's problems. In particular, he considered it important to confront one's own mortality. The discussion of how to approach death dominates many of his letters.Seneca’s Tragedies were widely read in medieval and Renaissance European universities and strongly influenced tragic drama in that time, such as Elizabethan England (William Shakespeare and other playwrights), France (Corneille and Racine), and the Netherlands (Joost van den Vondel). He is regarded as the source and inspiration for what is known as "Revenge Tragedy," starting with Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy and continuing well into the Jacobean era. Thyestes is considered to be Seneca's masterpiece, and has been described by scholar Dana Gioia as "one of the most influential plays ever written." Medea is also highly regarded, and was praised along with Phaedra by T. S. Eliot.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1521887225
• ISBN 13: 9781521887226
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 541
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