{"product_id":"epistles-volume-ii-hardcover-by-seneca","title":"Epistles, Volume II Hardcover by Seneca","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                            \n                                \n                                    \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                                    \u003cul\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eHarvard University Press\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(1920-01-06)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e496\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9780674990852\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e351.54\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e6.64 x 4.42 x 1.01\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                    \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                                    \u003cbr\u003e\n                                    \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMeditative missives.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeneca, 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 aunt’s 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e We have Seneca’s philosophical or moral essays (ten of them  traditionally called Dialogues)—on providence, steadfastness, the happy  life, anger, leisure, tranquility, the brevity of life, gift-giving,  forgiveness—and treatises on natural phenomena. Also extant are 124  epistles, in which he writes in a relaxed style about moral and ethical  questions, relating them to personal experiences; a skit on the official  deification of Claudius, \u003ci\u003eApocolocyntosis\u003c\/i\u003e (in LCL 15); and nine rhetorical tragedies on ancient Greek themes. Many epistles and all his speeches are lost.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The 124 epistles are collected in Volumes IV–VI of the Loeb Classical Library’s ten-volume edition of Seneca.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                    \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                                    \u003cp\u003eRichard Mott Gummere (1883–1969) taught Latin at Haverford College and served as Headmaster of the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia and Dean of Admissions at Harvard College.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                \n                            \n                            \u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":45281260109985,"sku":"BBSNIJ9780674990852","price":38.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/files\/9780674990852.jpg?v=1761676793","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/epistles-volume-ii-hardcover-by-seneca","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}