Libros de Séneca

De Ira / über Die Wut

• 319 páginas
• Ausgehend von den Theorien und Maximen der stoischen Philosophie analysiert Seneca in seinem Traktat "Über die Wut" diesen aggressiven Affekt unter folgenden Gesichtspunkten: Was versteht man unter Wut und wie entsteht sie? Soll man Wut...

Dialogos I -seneca

Tragedies: Vol 2

• Are there no limits to human cruelty? Is there any divine justice? Do the gods even matter if..

On The Shortness Of Life

• 112 páginas
• Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves—and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They...

Great Ideas On The Shortness Of Life

• 112 páginas
• The writings of the ancient Roman philosopher Seneca offer powerful insights into stoicism, morality and the importance of reason, and continue to provide profound guidance to many through their eloquence, lucidity and wisdom.

Seneca: Agamemnon

• 420 páginas
• Seneca's tragedy Agamemnon is a brilliantly rhetorical piece, written for the study rather than the stage. In this edition Professor Tarrant provides a much needed critical text. In his introduction he discusses the sources, dating, structure and mode...

Seneca: Selected Letters

• The letters of Seneca are uniquely engaging among the works that have survived from antiquity. They

De Otio

• 271 páginas
• This edition, the first modern one in English, introduces undergraduates and more advanced students to the therapeutic possibilities of Seneca's Stoic philosophy. The short treatises De otio and De brevitate vitae balance each other by representing...

Seneca: Moral And Political Essays

• 324 páginas
• This volume offers clear and forceful contemporary translations of the most important of Seneca's 'Moral Essays': On Anger, On Mercy, On the Private Life and the first four books of On Favours. They give an attractive, full picture of the social...

Medea

• 116 páginas
• Ahl's translations of three Senecan tragedies will gratify and challenge readers and performers. With stage performance specifically in mind, Ahl renders Seneca's dramatic force in a modern idiom and style that move easily between formality and...

Seneca

• The Gourdification of Claudius the God has instant and lasting appeal. It is a uniquely surviving..

Four Tragedies And Octavia

• 320 páginas
• Based on the legends used in Greek drama, Seneca's plays are notable for the exuberant ruthlessness with which disastrous events are foretold and then pursued to their tragic and often bloodthirsty ends. Thyestes depicts the menace of an ancestral...

Letters From A Stoic

• 256 páginas
• For several years of his turbulent life, Seneca was the guiding hand of the Roman Empire. His inspired reasoning derived mainly from the Stoic principles, which had originally been developed some centuries earlier in Athens. This selection of Seneca's...