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Source: Lucius Annasus Seneca.Moral Essays.Translated by John W. Basore. The Loeb Classical Library. London: W. Heinemann,1928-1935. 3 vols.: Volume III. Before using any portion of this text in any theme, essay, research paper, thesis, or dissertation, please read the disclaimer. Transcription conventions: Page numbers in Angle brackets refer to the edition cited as the source.

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.

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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.

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Seneca uses the dialogue to address an issue that cropped up many times in his life: the desire for a life of contemplation and the need for active political engagement. Seneca argues that the goal of a tranquil mind can be achieved by being flexible and seeking a middle way between the two extremes.

The 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 more than ten years. They are addressed to Lucilius, the then procurator of Sicily, although he is known only through Seneca's writings.

Seneca and the Self, edited by Shadi Bartsch and David Wray, is a collection of twelve essays on the self in Seneca's philosophical and literary oeuvre.Not all contributors, however, agree that there is such a thing as 'the self' in Seneca's thought. This makes for a rather special set-up: the very subject-matter of the volume may not exist.

The longest, most lucid, and easily the most eloquent statement of sovereign power that classical antiquity bequeathed to subsequent political theory is provided by the sovereign princeps himself as he steps forward to introduce himself to a postrevolutionary Roman audience in the prologue of Seneca’s De clementia:Have I, of all mortals, found favour with the gods and been chosen to act on.

This is the first issue of The Haley Classical Journal, published in February 2020. In this issue, articles discuss Livy's Ab Urbe Condita, Flavian hairstyles, beer in the Greek world, Syriac.