On Benefits (The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (605 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 022621222X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 184 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-18 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Nussbaum, this engaging collection restores Senecawhose works have been highly praised by modern authors from Desiderius Erasmus to Ralph Waldo Emersonto his rightful place among the classical writers most widely studied in the humanities.On Benefits, written between 56 and 64 CE, is a treatise addressed to Seneca’s close friend Aebutius Liberalis. Edited by world-renowned classicists Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C. The longest of Seneca’s works dealing with a single subjecthow to give and receive benefits and how to express gratitude appropriatelyOn Benefits is the only complete work on what we now call gift exchange” to survive from antiquity. Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and advisor to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature. Benefits were of great personal significance to Seneca, who remarked in one of his later letters that philosophy teaches, above all else, to owe and repay benefits well.. 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
“Griffin and Inwood’s work breathes new life into Seneca's essential text, which has been neglected for too long.”