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Title: Stoic Philosophy of Seneca Essays and Letters by Seneca, Moses Hadas ISBN: 0-393-00459-7 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 1968 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Best anthology of Seneca available
Comment: Undoubtedly Hadas' edition is the best single volume work of Seneca's writings currently available. I also have Penguin's selected letters, which offers a more extensive collection of the great Stoic's correspondence, but Hadas' book is preferable as an anthology since it includes some of Seneca's more interesting dialogues and essays not available except in the more expensive Loeb editions. Simply as a writer, Seneca is marvelous. His style is remarkably pithy, yet the thought is lofty. Just from a historical viewpoint, I've learned a lot about daily Roman life from his many annecdotes. Seneca's Stoicism is not presented in a "doctrinaire" manner as with Epictetus (whom I also enjoy) but rather in a conversational style. My only qualification is that in an effort to make the translation readable and appealing, Hadas sometimes concedes too much to modern American idiom, for example where he has Seneca saying that Caligula "dined one day at the cost of half a million dollars." There are other instances. Most translators would have used the original monetary reference and added a footnote to help put it in contemporary context. That aside, this volume is a great place to become acquainted with the profound wisdom of later Stoicism.
Rating: 5
Summary: As good a book on Stoicism as is out there
Comment: I read this book while in graduate school (when I was suppose to be reading something else of course), and it had a profound effect on me. There are many legends in Stoicism but there are few tangible works, ones that one can imbibe and feel atleast a little filled--other than Marcus Aurelius. This book gives not so much a systematic look at the philosophy but it does have that density and practicality and intimacy, which is so rare. It is interesting and more illuminating than any other book on the topic that I have come across, including the other greats: Epictetus, Aurelius.
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Title: Meditations by MARCUS AURELIUS, GREGORY HAYS ISBN: 0812968255 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 06 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Enchiridion by Epictetus, George Long ISBN: 0879757035 Publisher: Promethean Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1955 List Price(USD): $7.00 |
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Title: The Art of Living : The Classical Mannual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness by Epictetus, Sharon Lebell ISBN: 0062513222 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 06 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Handbook of Epictetus by Nicholas P. White ISBN: 0915145693 Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Pub. Date: June, 1983 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
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Title: The Essential Epicurus: Letters, Principal Doctrines, Vatican Sayings, and Fragments (Great Books in Philosophy) by Epicurus, Eugene Michael O'Connor ISBN: 0879758104 Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: May, 1993 List Price(USD): $8.00 |
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