author: seneca

Selected Letters

This is the largest selection of Stoic philosopher and tragedian Seneca's letters currently available.

De ira

Timeless wisdom on controlling anger in personal life and politics from the Roman Stoic philosopher and statesman Seneca In his essay “On Anger” (De Ira), the Roman Stoic thinker Seneca (c. 4 BC–65 AD) argues that anger is the most ...

De Ira: Latin Text

De Ira (On anger) - A study on the consequences and the control of anger by Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca). In Latin.

Hercules

... dragon. 319 et seq: Lycus became king of Thebes by killing King Creon, Megara's father, and his sons. Cadmus, also referred to here, founded Thebes, populating it with a race of warriors that sprang up from the teeth of a dragon, which ...

Higher Book

... mi . 40 rd . 2 ft . 8 in . to inches . 9. Reduce 80 chains 3 poles 4 links to links . 10. Reduce 4 sq . mi . 40 A. 70 sq . rd . to square rods . 11. How many acres are in 6 townships ? 12. How many cubic inches are in 30 cubic yards ...

Environmental Economics

... science . This note is directed especially at those readers who have mastered the material in the text and are eager now to think about the major unsolved problems in the field . The outline ... Chapter 1 of this book ( Part 1 ) intro- duced ...

Seneca's Thyestes

My principal aim has thus been to make this extraordinary work more widely accessible and so contribute to a greater appreciation of its quality.

On Benefits

... free state, was not willing of his own choice to become a slave. 7 I think that we have sufficiently discussed this part ... myself,” “I can complain of no one but myself,” “I am angry with myself,” “I will punish myself,” “I hate myself ...

The Midnight Sun: Being the Story of the Cruise of the Ohio Among the North British Islands; to Iceland and the North Cape; Through the Fjords of Norway and to Baltic Ports, Anno Domini, 1897

... MIDNIGHT SUN . CHAPTER X - page 87 . Ice Floes in the Greenland Sea , 87 ; The Northing Sun , 86 ; They Stood on the Bridge at Midnight , " 88 ; Phases of the Midnight Sun , 89 ; Morning , 91 . HAMMERFEST . CHAPTER XI - page 95 ...

GUIDE to EARNING LAW and LAW-RELATED DEGREES NONTRADITIONALLY

... Bar 645 South 200 East, Suite 310 Salt Lake City, UT 84111-3834 Tele: +1 (801) 531 ... VIRGINIA Virginia State Bar 707 East Main Street, Suite 1500 Richmond, VA ... Board of Law Examiners P.O. Box 13486 Austin, TX 78711-3486 Tele: +1 (512) ...

Of Providence

Seneca (c. 4 BC - AD 65) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman and dramatist.In this essay, Seneca wonders why, when a providence exists, any misfortunes befall good men.Extract:Why do many things turn out badly for good men?

On Providence

De Providentia ("On Providence") is a short essay in the form of a dialogue in six brief sections, written by the Latin philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca, "Seneca the Younger" (died AD 65) in the last years of his life.

Treatises: On Providence, on Tranquility of Mind, on Shortness of Life, on Happy Life - Scholar's Choice Edition

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

Treatises: On Providence, on Tranquility of Mind, on Shortness of Life, on Happy Life

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

Treatises on Providence, on Tranquillity of Mind, on Shortness of Life, on Happy Life: Together with Select Epistles, Epigrammata, an Introduction

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

On a Happy Life, On the Shortness of Life, and On Providence: (Annotated)

The work ends rather abruptly and is followed in the manuscripts by Seneca's De Otio which is missing its beginning.

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

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.

Four Tragedies and Octavia

Seneca. My day is not a time for sleep, my night An endless vigil in the cause of Bacchus.2 But neither am I feared by any man; My house is undefended, but secure. Great is my peace, as my estate is small: Kingdom unlimited, without a ...

Economic Losses from Marine Pollution: A Handbook For Assessment

... represent the socially efficient point where social marginal benefits and social marginal costs are equal . In a perfectly competitive market such a point achieves both economic efficiency and social efficiency ( Bohm 1976 , Rosen 1999 ) ...

Moral letters to Lucilius

Philosophical in tone and written in the 'pointed' style of the Latin Silver Age these 'essays in disguise' were clearly aimed by Seneca at posterity.

Moral Letters to Lucilius: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium

The Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, also known as the Moral Epistles, is a collection of 124 letters which were written by Seneca the Younger at the end of his life, during his retirement, and written after he had worked for the Emperor Nero ...

Moral letters to Lucilius

Philosophical in tone and written in the 'pointed' style of the Latin Silver Age these 'essays in disguise' were clearly aimed by Seneca at posterity.

Moral letters to Lucilius

Philosophical in tone and written in the 'pointed' style of the Latin Silver Age these 'essays in disguise' were clearly aimed by Seneca at posterity.

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