De otio

by Sénèque

Introduces students to the complex artistic method and provocative message of Senecan philosophy.

De otio

Author: Sénèque

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 9780521588065

Page: 271

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Introduces students to the complex artistic method and provocative message of Senecan philosophy.

A History of Ancient Philosophy IV

by Giovanni Reale

In 62 CE Burrus died, Seneca, retired from public life, being by this time out of
favor with Nero, as well as because of the malificent influence of Poppea. ... vita
beata, De otio, De tranquillitate animi, De brevitate vitae, Ad Polybium de
consolatione Ad Helviam matrem de consolatione. ... 3. Seneca, De otio, 3.2. 4.
Seneca, De brev. vitae, 14.2. 5. Seneca, De vita beata, 13.4. 6. Seneca, Epist. 58.
16-22. 7.

A History of Ancient Philosophy IV

Author: Giovanni Reale

Publisher: SUNY Press

ISBN: 9780791401286

Page: 574

View: 345

This book covers the first 500 years of the common era. These years witnessed the revivals of Aristotelianism, Epicureanism, Pyrrhonism, Cynicism, and Pythagoreanism; but by far the most important movement was the revival of Platonism under Plotinus. Here, the historical context of Plotinus is provided including the currents of thought that preceded him and opened the path for him. The presuppositions of the Enneads are made explicit and the thought of Plotinus is reconstructed. The author reorients the expositions of Middle Platonism and neo-Pythagoreanism. He provides a full exposition of Hermeticism and the doctrines of the Chaldean Oracles. He also defends the notion that Philo of Alexandria nourished a Jewish philosophy, not an eclectic mixture.

Dying Every Day

by James Romm

401–7) that she still believesin a date of 55 for De Brevitate Vitae but cannot
proveit. Gareth Williams, in hisintroduction to a recent edition (Seneca: De Otio,
De Brevitate Vitae [Cambridge 2003]) calls Griffin's interpretation “highly
speculative” ...

Dying Every Day

Author: James Romm

Publisher: Vintage

ISBN: 0385351720

Page: 320

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From acclaimed classical historian, author of Ghost on the Throne (“Gripping . . . the narrative verve of a born writer and the erudition of a scholar” —Daniel Mendelsohn) and editor of The Landmark Arrian:The Campaign of Alexander (“Thrilling” —The New York Times Book Review), a high-stakes drama full of murder, madness, tyranny, perversion, with the sweep of history on the grand scale. At the center, the tumultuous life of Seneca, ancient Rome’s preeminent writer and philosopher, beginning with banishment in his fifties and subsequent appointment as tutor to twelve-year-old Nero, future emperor of Rome. Controlling them both, Nero’s mother, Julia Agrippina the Younger, Roman empress, great-granddaughter of the Emperor Augustus, sister of the Emperor Caligula, niece and fourth wife of Emperor Claudius. James Romm seamlessly weaves together the life and written words, the moral struggles, political intrigue, and bloody vengeance that enmeshed Seneca the Younger in the twisted imperial family and the perverse, paranoid regime of Emperor Nero, despot and madman. Romm writes that Seneca watched over Nero as teacher, moral guide, and surrogate father, and, at seventeen, when Nero abruptly ascended to become emperor of Rome, Seneca, a man never avid for political power became, with Nero, the ruler of the Roman Empire. We see how Seneca was able to control his young student, how, under Seneca’s influence, Nero ruled with intelligence and moderation, banned capital punishment, reduced taxes, gave slaves the right to file complaints against their owners, pardoned prisoners arrested for sedition. But with time, as Nero grew vain and disillusioned, Seneca was unable to hold sway over the emperor, and between Nero’s mother, Agrippina—thought to have poisoned her second husband, and her third, who was her uncle (Claudius), and rumored to have entered into an incestuous relationship with her son—and Nero’s father, described by Suetonius as a murderer and cheat charged with treason, adultery, and incest, how long could the young Nero have been contained? Dying Every Day is a portrait of Seneca’s moral struggle in the midst of madness and excess. In his treatises, Seneca preached a rigorous ethical creed, exalting heroes who defied danger to do what was right or embrace a noble death. As Nero’s adviser, Seneca was presented with a more complex set of choices, as the only man capable of summoning the better aspect of Nero’s nature, yet, remaining at Nero’s side and colluding in the evil regime he created. Dying Every Day is the first book to tell the compelling and nightmarish story of the philosopher-poet who was almost a king, tied to a tyrant—as Seneca, the paragon of reason, watched his student spiral into madness and whose descent saw five family murders, the Fire of Rome, and a savage purge that destroyed the supreme minds of the Senate’s golden age.

The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke Poems translations and correspondence

by Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke

7 : 14 ) , and Seneca agrees that only philosophers truly live ( ' De brevitate vitae
XIV ) . ... 511-12 ) ; the search for pastoral otium , discussed in Seneca's ' De otio '
, is illustrated by the story of Lot's escape from Sodom ( 485–8 ) ; the longing ...

The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke Poems translations and correspondence

Author: Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke

Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand

ISBN: 9780198112808

Page: 390

View: 617

Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke and sister to Sir Philip Sidney, is the most important woman writer of the Elizabethan era outside the royal family. This scholarly edition in two volumes is the first to include all her extant works: Volume I prints her three original poems, the disputed "Dolefull Lay of Clorinda," her translations from Petrarch, Mornay, and Garnier, and all her known letters. Volume II contains her metrical paraphrases of Psalms 44-150. The edition also provides a biographical introduction, discussion of her sources and methods of composition, textual annotation, and a detailed commentary.

Walking in Roman Culture

by Timothy M. O'Sullivan

De physiogn. Aug. RG Juv. Sat. Manilius, Astron. Mart. Ep. Perp. PHerc Phld. Ep.
Sider Phld. Rhet. Sudhaus Plut. ... R. Foerster, Leipzig) Seneca, De brevitate
vitae Seneca, De otio Seneca, De vita beata Strabo, Geographica Tertullian, De ...

Walking in Roman Culture

Author: Timothy M. O'Sullivan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 1139497154

Page:

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Walking served as an occasion for the display of power and status in ancient Rome, where great men paraded with their entourages through city streets and elite villa owners strolled with friends in private colonnades and gardens. In this book-length treatment of the culture of walking in ancient Rome, Timothy O'Sullivan explores the careful attention which Romans paid to the way they moved through their society. He employs a wide range of literary, artistic and architectural evidence to reveal the crucial role that walking played in the performance of social status, the discourse of the body and the representation of space. By examining how Roman authors depict walking, this book sheds new light on the Romans themselves - not only how they perceived themselves and their experience of the world, but also how they drew distinctions between work and play, mind and body, and Republic and Empire.

Hardship and Happiness

by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“De Brevitate Vitae.”JRS 52:104–13. ———. 1976. Seneca:A Philosopher in
Politics (Oxford: Oxford Uni- versity Press / Clarendon Press; repr. with postscript,
1992), esp. 317–21, 401–7. Williams, G. D., ed. 2003. Seneca: “De Otio,” “De ...

Hardship and Happiness

Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

ISBN: 022610835X

Page: 288

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE–65 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 Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C. Nussbaum, this engaging collection helps restore Seneca—whose works have been highly praised by modern authors from Desiderius Erasmus to Ralph Waldo Emerson—to his rightful place among the classical writers most widely studied in the humanities. Hardship and Happiness collects a range of essays intended to instruct, from consolations—works that offer comfort to someone who has suffered a personal loss—to pieces on how to achieve happiness or tranquility in the face of a difficult world. Expertly translated, the essays will be read and used by undergraduate philosophy students and experienced scholars alike.

History of Ancient Philosophy

by Wilhelm Windelband

Seneca , Epictetus , and Marcus Aurelius appeared as its chief representatives at
this time . ... there are preserved De providentia , De constantia sapientis , De ira ,
De consolatione , De brevitate vitae , De otio , De vita beata , De tranquillitate ...

History of Ancient Philosophy

Author: Wilhelm Windelband

Publisher:

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Page: 393

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The imperial period

by Wilhelm Sigismund Teuffel

8 ) ad Serenum de otio . 9 ) ad Serenum de tranquillitate animi . A treatise by
AHIRSCHIG , Leid . 1825. Cf. HMGEUZOE , Nord . Tidskr . f . filol . 1 ( 1874 ) , 110
. 10 ) ad Paulinum ( the father - in - law of Seneca ? ) de brevitate vitae , before a .

The imperial period

Author: Wilhelm Sigismund Teuffel

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Moral Essays De consolatione ad Marciam De vita beata De otio De tranquillitate animi De brevitate vitae De consolatione ad Polybium De consolatione ad Helviam

by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Lucius Annaeus Seneca. efficacia ad consolandum exulem , utraque in unum
conlata ... 6 . 7 . The Stoic dogma of the City of the World ; cf . Seneca , De Otio , 4
. 1 . decide that these considerations taken singly do not suffice to 440 SENECA.

Moral Essays De consolatione ad Marciam De vita beata De otio De tranquillitate animi De brevitate vitae De consolatione ad Polybium De consolatione ad Helviam

Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Publisher:

ISBN: 9780674992801

Page:

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In Moral Essays, Seneca (c. 4-65 CE) expresses his Stoic philosophy on providence, steadfastness, anger, forgiveness, consolation, the happy life, leisure, tranquility, the brevity of life, and gift-giving. Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) circa 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. His moral essays are collected in Volumes I-III of the Loeb Classical Library's ten-volume edition of Seneca.

Historia Cr tica de la Literatura Espanola

by José Amador de los Ríos

Sin embargo , no puede haber más completa unidad respecto al fondo de unas y
otras , así como no puede tampoco ser mayor la ... Lucio Anneo Séneca se
distingue no obstante como escritor polígrafo : poeta y orador desde su juventud
, aspira tambien al ... sapientis ; De Clementia ; De Brevitate vitae ; De vita beata ;
De otio aut secessu sapientis ; los siete De Beneficiis y las Epistolae ad Lucilium
.

Historia Cr tica de la Literatura Espanola

Author: José Amador de los Ríos

Publisher:

ISBN:

Page:

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Historia cr tica de la literatura espa ola

by José Amador de los Ríos

Sin embargo , no puede haber más completa unidad respecto al fondo de unas y
otras , así como no puede tampoco ser mayor la ... Lucio Anneo Séneca se
distingue no obstante como escritor polígrafo : poeta y orador desde su juventud
, aspira tambien al ... sapientis ; De Clementia ; De Brevitate vitae ; De vita beata ;
De otio aut secessu sapientis ; los siete De Beneficiis y las Epistolae ad Lucilium
.

Historia cr tica de la literatura espa ola

Author: José Amador de los Ríos

Publisher:

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Page:

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Seneca Pamphlets

by

... Novatum de consolatione liber 1 ad Marciam de beata vita liber 1 ad
Gallionem de otio liber 1 ad Serenum de tranquillitate animi liber 1 ad Serenum
de brevitate vitae liber 1 ad Paulinum de consolatione liber 1 ad Polybium de
consolatione ...

Seneca Pamphlets

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Between Heathenism and Christianity

by Charles William Super

Being a Translation of Seneca's De Providentia, and Plutarch's De Sera Numinis
Vindicta, Together with Notes, Additional ... De Tro De Otio , ( On Leisure ) . litate
Animi , ( On Peace of Mind ) . De Brevitate Vitae , ( On the Shortness of Life ) .

Between Heathenism and Christianity

Author: Charles William Super

Publisher:

ISBN:

Page: 221

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The Deaths of Seneca

by James Ker

For works attributed to Seneca I use the following: Aga. ... Agamemnon Quomodo
amicitia continenda sit Apocolocyntosis De beneficiis De brevitate vitae De
clementia De constantia sapientis Epistulae morales Epigrams [fragment in
Vottero ...

The Deaths of Seneca

Author: James Ker

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 9780199739493

Page: 432

View: 169

The forced suicide of Seneca, former adviser to Nero, is one of the most tortured--and most revisited--death scenes from classical antiquity. After fruitlessly opening his veins and drinking hemlock, Seneca finally succumbed to death in a stifling steam bath, while his wife Paulina, who had attempted suicide as well, was bandaged up and revived by Nero's men. From the first century to the present day, writers and artists have retold this scene in order to rehearse and revise Seneca's image and writings, and to scrutinize the event of human death. In The Deaths of Seneca, James Ker offers the first comprehensive cultural history of Seneca's death scene, situating it in the Roman imagination and tracing its many subsequent interpretations. Ker shows first how the earliest accounts of the death scene by Tacitus and others were shaped by conventions of Greco-Roman exitus-description and Julio-Claudian dynastic history. At the book's center is an exploration of Seneca's own prolific writings about death--whether anticipating death in his letters, dramatizing it in the tragedies, or offering therapy for loss in the form of consolations--which offered the primary lens through which Seneca's contemporaries would view the author's death. These ancient approaches set the stage for prolific receptions, and Ker traces how the death scene was retold in both literary and visual versions, from St. Jerome to Heiner M?ller and from medieval illuminations to Peter Paul Rubens and Jacques-Louis David. Dozens of interpreters, engaging with prior versions and with Seneca's writings, forged new and sometimes controversial views on Seneca's legacy and, more broadly, on mortality and suicide. The Deaths of Seneca presents a new, historically inclusive, approach to reading this major Roman author.

Theoria Praxis and the Contemplative Life After Plato and Aristotle

by Thomas Bénatouïl

SENECA AND THE CONTEMPLATIO VERI DE OTIO AND
EPISTULAEMORALES Margaret Graver Seneca makes a formal case for ...
Seneca touches on the topic more broadly in his dialogues De brevitate vitae and
De tranquillitate animi.

Theoria Praxis and the Contemplative Life After Plato and Aristotle

Author: Thomas Bénatouïl

Publisher: BRILL

ISBN: 9004225323

Page: 295

View: 366

This volume deals with the appropriations, criticism and transformation of Plato’s and Aristotle’s positions about theory, practice and the contemplative life, including their epistemological and metaphysical foundations, from Theophrastus to the end of Antiquity (including Jewish and Christian authors).

Catalogue of the Barton Collection Boston Public Library Catalogue of the miscellaneous portion of the Barton Collection Boston Public Library

by Boston Public Library. Barton Collection

10 Lettre à un membre de la Commission nommé Seneca , Lucius Annæus , 2 ?
... providentia ; De tranquillitate animi ; De con . stantia sapientis ; De clementia ;
De brevitate vitae ; De vita beata ; De otio aut secessu sapientis ; De beneficiis .

Catalogue of the Barton Collection Boston Public Library Catalogue of the miscellaneous portion of the Barton Collection Boston Public Library

Author: Boston Public Library. Barton Collection

Publisher:

ISBN:

Page: 631

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The Imperial period

by Wilhelm Sigmund Teuffel

Gellius XII 2 , 1 : de Annaeo Seneca partim existimant ut de scriptore minime utili
, cuius libros attingere nullum pretium ... The dates of the composition of Seneca's
works . ... 315—321 ) and de brevitate vitae ( cf. ... 62 ) , he wrote de otio ad
Serenum , and also the works addressed to Lucilius de providentia , the
quaestiones ...

The Imperial period

Author: Wilhelm Sigmund Teuffel

Publisher:

ISBN:

Page:

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A History of Roman Literature

by Wilhelm Sigmund Teuffel

Gellius XII 2 , 1 : de Annaeo Seneca partim existimant ut de scriptore minime utili
, cuius libros attingere nullum ... The dates of the composition of Seneca ' s works
. ... 315 — 321 ) and de brevitate vitae ( cf . ... 62 ) , he wrote de otio ad Serenum ,
and also the works addressed to Lucilius de providentia , the quaestiones ...

A History of Roman Literature

Author: Wilhelm Sigmund Teuffel

Publisher:

ISBN:

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Oarses Zygia

by William Smith

De Brevitate Vitae ad Paulinum Liber , recomwould be the earliest Seneca's
works . ... De Vita Beata ad Gallionem , addressed to the subject . ... De Otio aut
Secessu Sapientis , is sometimes also been already mentioned : it was written ...

Oarses Zygia

Author: William Smith

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