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Seneca's Morals: By Way of Abstract; To Which Is Added a Discourse, Under the Title of an After-Thought. E-book. Formato PDF Lucius Annaeus Seneca - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
And again 3, Seneca says very well in his Morals They worship the images of the gods, says he, kneel to them, and adore them; they are hardly ever from them, either plying them with o?'erings, or sacrifices, and yet after all this reverence to the image, they have no regard at all to the workman that made it.
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales: With an English Translation by Richard M. Gummere. E-book. Formato PDF Lucius Annaeus Seneca - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
Among the personalities of the early Roman Empire there are few who offer to the readers of to-day such dramatic interest as does Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the author of the Epistles which are translated in this volume. Born in a province, educated at Rome, prominent at the bar, a distinguished exile, a trusted minister of State, and a doomed victim of a capricious emperor, Seneca is so linked with the age in which he lived that in reading his works we read those of a true representative of the most thrilling period of Roman history.Seneca was born in the year 4 B. C., a time of great opportunity, at Corduba, in Spain, son of the talented rhetorician, Annaeus Seneca. We gather that the family moved to Rome during the boyhood of Lucius, that he was educated for the bar, and that he was soon attracted by the Stoic philosophy, the stern nurse of heroes during the first century of the Empire.
Three Tragedies of Seneca: Hercules Furens, Troades, Medea. E-book. Formato PDF Lucius Annaeus Seneca - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
The last decade has seen a revival of interest in the Latin Tragedy, which had long been neglected. In many colleges and universities the plays are studied now either in independent courses or as supplementary to work in the Comedy. The neglect, no doubt, was due in part to the want of available editions with English notes. On the Continent of Europe, especially in Germany, much labor has been de voted to the constitution of the text, and'many monographs on various phases of the subject have been published. In England and America, on the other hand, little has been done for many years. It has been the fashion to dismiss the Senecan tragedies airily as unworthy of serious attention; but such criticism seems to have been based in most cases on slight first hand acquaintance with them. Undeniably they have their faults, yet have withal a real interest and value, first as the sole remains of an important branch of Roman literature, second for their Own content and style, and third for their direct and powerful in?uence upon the English drama of the Elizabethan age. Most of them, furthermore, may be compared directly with their Greek originals, an advantage we do not enjoy in studying the Latin Comedy.