Seneca, Volume IV, Epistles 1-65

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Loeb Classical Library No. 75

By: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, R.M. Gummere (Transcribed by)

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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BCE, 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 54 CE, 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.

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, Apocolocyntosis (in Loeb number 15); and nine rhetorical tragedies on ancient Greek themes. Many epistles and all his speeches are lost.

The 124 epistles are collected in Volumes IV–VI of the Loeb Classical Library's ten-volume edition of Seneca.

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca the younger was born in Corduba (present-day Córdoba), Spain, around 3 BCE. He was the second son of three in a wealthy family. His father was a famous teacher of Rhetoric in Rome. Early in life, Seneca went to Rome with his Aunt, who was wife to the prefect Gaius Galerius, and there he was educated in philosophy in the school of the Sextii. His schooling was a blend of Stoicism and ascetic neo-Pythagoreanism. While in school he earned the reputation for being an excellent orator. Seneca experienced some ill health and followed his aunt to Egypt to recover. He returned to Rome in 31 AD, and began his career in law and politics.

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Introduction
Epistles
On Saving Time
On Discursiveness in Reading
On True and False Friendship
On the Terrors of Death V. On the Philosopher's Mean
On Sharing Knowledge
On Crowds
On the Philosopher's Seclusion
On Philosophy and Friendship
On Living to Oneself
On the Blush of Modesty
On Old Age
On Groundless Fears
On Withdrawing from the World
On Brawn and Brains
On Philosophy, the Guide of Life
On Philosophy and Riches
On Festivals and Fasting
On Worldliness and Retirement
On Practicing What You Preach
On the Renown which My Writings Will Bring You
On the Futility of Half-Way Measures
On the True Joy which Comes from Philosophy
On Despising Death
On Reformation
On Old Age and Death
On the Good which Abides
On Travel as a Cure for Discontent
On the Critical Condition of Marcellinus
On Conquering the Conqueror
On Siren Songs
On Progress
On a Promising Pupil
On the Friendship of Kindred Minds
On the Value of Retirement
On Allegiance to Virtue
On Quiet Conversation
On Noble Aspirations
On the Proper Style for a Philosopher's Discourse
On the God within Us
On Values
On the Relativity of Fame
On Philosophy and Pedigrees
On Sophistical Argumentation
On a New Book by Lucilius
On Master and Slave
On Quibbling as Unworthy of the Philosopher
On the Shortness of Life
On Our Blindness and Its Cure
On Baiae and Morals
On Choosing Our Teachers
On the Faults of the Spirit
On Asthma and Death
On Vatia's Villa
On Quiet and Study
On the Trials of Travel
On Being
On Pleasure and Joy
On Harmful Prayers
On Meeting Death Cheerfully
On Good Company
On Grief for Lost Friends
On the Philosopher's Task
On the First Cause
Index
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Seneca, Volume IV, Epistles 1-65

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