The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCEâ65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and advisor to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature. The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca is a fresh and compelling series of new English-language translations of his works in eight accessible volumes. Edited by world-renowned classicists Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C. Nussbaum, this engaging collection restores Senecaâwhose works have been highly praised by modern authors from Desiderius Erasmus to Ralph Waldo Emersonâto his rightful place among the classical writers most widely studied in the humanities. On Benefits, written between 56 and 64 CE, is a treatise addressed to Seneca's close friend Aebutius Liberalis. The longest of Seneca's works dealing with a single subjectâhow to give and receive benefits and how to express gratitude appropriatelyâ On Benefits is the only complete work on what we now call "gift exchange" to survive from antiquity. Benefits were of great personal significance to Seneca, who remarked in one of his later letters that philosophy teaches, above all else, to owe and repay benefits well.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Seneca and His World
- Translatorsâ Introduction
- On Benefits
- Notes
- Textual Notes
- References
- Index