| #402201 in Books | Harvard University Press | 1920-01-01 | 1920-01-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 6.00 x1.00 x4.00l,.76 | File type: PDF | 496 pages | ||12 of 15 people found the following review helpful.| A Secular Bible for the 21st Century|By Donald Vish|Seneca's one hundred and twenty four letters to Lucilius constitute a secular bible, an ethical catechism written in a gnomic and epigrammatic style that sparkles as it enlightens. So impressed were the early church fathers with Seneca's moral insights that they advanced (fabricated?) the speculation that he must have come
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BCE, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunt's care. He became famous in rhetoric, philosophy, money-making, and imperial service. After some disgrace during Claudius' reign he became tutor and then, in 54 CE, advising minister to Nero, some of whose worst misdeeds he did not prevent. Involved (innocently?) in a conspiracy, he killed himself by order in 65. Wealt...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Seneca: Epistles 66-92 (Loeb No. 76) | Seneca. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
