{"title":"Books by Lucius Annaeus, the Younger Seneca","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780674997370","title":"Satyricon. Apocolocyntosis","description":"Two rollicking Roman satires.   The Satyrica (Satyricon liber), a comic-picaresque fiction in prose and verse traditionally attributed to the Neronian Petronius (d. AD 66) but possibly of Flavian or Trajanic date, survives only as fragments of a much larger whole. It takes the form of a first-person narrative by the endearing ne’er-do-well Encolpius, a brilliant storyteller, parodist, and mimic who recalls episodes from his past life as a wandering bohemian, living by his wits on the margins of society in Greek southern Italy and encountering a vividly realized array of characters from the early imperial demimonde, including the wealthy freedman Trimalchio, one of the most unforgettable characters in all of Latin literature.   Paired with the Satyrica, and likewise in prose and verse, is the Apocolocyntosis (Pumpkinification), a short satirical pamphlet lampooning the death, apotheosis, and attempt to enter heaven of the emperor Claudius (reigned 41–54). If the work of Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC–AD 65), better known for his austere Stoic moralism, its sarcastic wit and rollicking humor were no doubt inspired by bitterness over his exile at Claudius’ hands in 41–49.   For this Loeb edition the Latin texts have been freshly edited and translated, with ample introductions and explanatory notes.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56292869898613,"sku":"9780674997370","price":24.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780674997370_74795167-5ac1-4a17-a9ca-51554d4f0d86.jpg?v=1786015224"},{"product_id":"9780674990845","title":"Epistles, Volume I","description":"Meditative missives.   Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BC, 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 AD 54, 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. Wealthy, he preached indifference to wealth; evader of pain and death, he preached scorn of both; and there were other contrasts between practice and principle.    We have Seneca’s philosophical or moral essays (ten of them traditionally called Dialogues)—on providence, steadfastness, the happy life, anger, leisure, tranquility, the brevity of life, gift-giving, forgiveness—and treatises on natural phenomena. Also extant are 124 epistles, in which he writes in a relaxed style about moral and ethical questions, relating them to personal experiences; a skit on the official deification of Claudius, Apocolocyntosis (in LCL 15); and nine rhetorical tragedies on ancient Greek themes. Many epistles and all his speeches are lost.    The 124 epistles are collected in Volumes IV–VI of the Loeb Classical Library’s ten-volume edition of Seneca.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56293114708341,"sku":"9780674990845","price":24.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780674990845_d54d407e-8f2a-4200-aade-853644f6a7ff.jpg?v=1786014996"},{"product_id":"9780674990852","title":"Epistles, Volume II","description":"Meditative missives.   Seneca, Lucius  Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BC, 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 AD 54, 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. Wealthy, he preached indifference to wealth;  evader of pain and death, he preached scorn of both; and there were  other contrasts between practice and principle.    We have Seneca’s philosophical or moral essays (ten of them  traditionally called Dialogues)—on providence, steadfastness, the happy  life, anger, leisure, tranquility, the brevity of life, gift-giving,  forgiveness—and treatises on natural phenomena. Also extant are 124  epistles, in which he writes in a relaxed style about moral and ethical  questions, relating them to personal experiences; a skit on the official  deification of Claudius, Apocolocyntosis (in LCL 15); and nine rhetorical tragedies on ancient Greek themes. Many epistles and all his speeches are lost.    The 124 epistles are collected in Volumes IV–VI of the Loeb Classical Library’s ten-volume edition of Seneca.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56294331416949,"sku":"9780674990852","price":24.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780674990852_d6559252-98f2-41ab-8a67-56a678429c13.jpg?v=1786014996"},{"product_id":"9780674993433","title":"Moral Essays, Volume III","description":"Topics in Stoicism.   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Also extant are 124  epistles, in which he writes in a relaxed style about moral and ethical  questions, relating them to personal experiences; a skit on the official  deification of Claudius, Apocolocyntosis (in LCL 15); and nine rhetorical tragedies on ancient Greek themes. Many epistles and all his speeches are lost.    His moral essays are collected in Volumes I–III of the Loeb Classical Library’s ten-volume edition of Seneca.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56294356877685,"sku":"9780674993433","price":24.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780674993433_bfbcdecb-9ab4-45f6-b05d-9bff3b5ae1da.jpg?v=1786015071"},{"product_id":"9780674994959","title":"Natural Questions, Volume I","description":"Following nature in pursuit of ethics.   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Also extant are 124 epistles, in which he writes in a relaxed style about moral and ethical questions, relating them to personal experiences; a skit on the official deification of Claudius, Apocolocyntosis (in LCL 15); and nine rhetorical tragedies on ancient Greek themes. Many epistles and all his speeches are lost.   The treatises on natural phenomena, Naturales Quaestiones, are collected in Volumes VII and X of the Loeb Classical Library’s ten-volume edition of Seneca.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56294391873909,"sku":"9780674994959","price":24.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780674994959_8b252820-5b9a-43f8-a24c-47fd4c3f554a.jpg?v=1786015116"},{"product_id":"epistles-volume-iii-epistles-93-124-trans-gunmmere-latin","title":"Epistles, Volume III","description":"Meditative missives.   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