Hardship and Happiness (Seneca Lucius Annaeus)(Pevná vazba)

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
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