1771 Seneca's Morals, by way of Abstract : Roman Stoic Philosopher

Seneca's Morals, by way of Abstract. To which is perfixed, the life of the author. A new translation.

Printed in the Year 1771. No mention of publisher or printer. Modern(ish) leather binding with direct gilt titles, plain endpapers, pp viii, [iv], 384. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece plus a further 4 engraved plates.

CONDITION
A good copy. The leather binding is good. Endpapers good. All contents present and pages good throughout with signs of age-toning and some light spotting. All 5 plates are present and in good order. Overall good.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC – AD 65), usually known mononymously as Seneca, was a Stoic philosopher of Ancient Rome, a statesman, dramatist, and in one work, satirist, from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature.

As a writer, Seneca is known for his philosophical works, and for his plays, which are all tragedies. His prose works include 12 essays and 124 letters dealing with moral issues. These writings constitute one of the most important bodies of primary material for ancient Stoicism. As a tragedian, he is best known for plays such as his Medea, Thyestes, and Phaedra. Seneca had an immense influence on later generations—during the Renaissance he was "a sage admired and venerated as an oracle of moral, even of Christian edification; a master of literary style and a model for dramatic art."

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