Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE–65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher,
dramatist, statesman, and adviser 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 seven accessible volumes. Edited by
world-renowned classicists Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha
C. Nussbaum, this engaging collection restores 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. Written near the end of
Seneca’s life, Natural Questions is a work in which Seneca expounds
and comments on the natural sciences of his day—rivers and
earthquakes, wind and snow, meteors and comets—offering us a
valuable look at the ancient scientific mind at work. The modern
reader will find fascinating insights into ancient philosophical and
scientific approaches to the physical world and also vivid evocations
of the grandeur, beauty, and terror of nature.
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ISBN
9780226748542
Publisert
2018
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University of Chicago Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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