Essays from the Stoic philosopher instructing how to find happiness in a world full of adversity.

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 translated, the essays will be read and used by undergraduate philosophy students and experienced scholars alike.

Praise for Hardship and Happiness

"[The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca] brings together many preeminent anglophone scholars of Seneca as editors and translators and succeeds in its aim to reach a wider audience through readable, modern English translations... The overall high quality of the translations and notes make this volume (and its respective series) highly desirable for scholars and libraries alike." -- Classical Journal

"A significant improvement over what has been available in English of the previous century... The translations presented here admirably achieve the aim set out by the series' editors: 'to be faithful to the Latin while reading idiomatically in English.'... Hardship and Happiness is a handsome volume, beautifully conceived and executed." -- Review of Metaphysics

"We owe a debt of gratitude to Chicago for this one-volume selection of essays from long ago, which still have the power to stimulate our minds today." -- Classics for All

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• Publication Date: March 5, 2014
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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• Print Length: 349 Pages
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