Letters from a Stoic, Lucius Seneca

Title: Letters from a Stoic
Original: Letters from a Stoic
Category: Philosophy
Author: Lucius Seneca
Publisher: Collins Classics
Year: 2020
Pgs. 256
Weight: 0.160 kg
ISBN: 978-0-00-842505-0
This book is in English


About the book

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC-AD 65) is one of the most famous Roman philosophers. Instrumental in guiding the Roman Empire under emperor Nero, Seneca influenced him from a young age with his Stoic principles. Later in life, he wrote Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, or Letters from a Stoic, detailing these principles in full.

Seneca’s letters read like a diary, or a handbook of philosophical meditations. Often beginning with observations on daily life, the letters focus on many traditional themes of Stoic philosophy, such as the contempt of death, the value of friendship and virtue as the supreme good.

Using Gummere’s translation from the early twentieth century, this selection of Seneca’s letters shows his belief in the austere, ethical ideals of Stoicism – teachings we can still learn from today