Version Intégrale!!!Les Lettres à Lucilius (latin : Epistulae morales ad Lucilium, soit Épîtres morales à Lucilius) sont un ensemble de 124 lettres écrites en latin par Sénèque (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) lors des dernières années de sa vie (63-64) à l'intention de Lucilius le Jeune, alors gouverneur romain de Sicile.Correspondance entre un philosophe accompli et un néophyte intéressé, les Lettres touchent à une foule de sujets - de la vie quotidienne aux préoccupations métaphysiques - et tendent à expliciter et mettre en valeur les enseignements du stoïcisme adopté par Sénèque. En plus de leur attrait principalement philosophique, elles fournissent maintes indications sur le mode de vie des Romains de l'époque (Ier siècle).[selon Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0)]

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The forced suicide of Seneca, former adviser to Nero, is one of the most tortured death scenes from classical antiquity. Here, James Ker offers a comprehensive cultural history of Seneca's death scene, situating it in the Roman imagination and tracing its many subsequent interpretations.

In this volume we find Seneca at his best, and over the centuries countless readers have found his letters on ethics edifying. They range in subject from how to live a Stoic life and retain one's humanity in a cold, impersonal society to why slavery is wrong to the foibles of debauchery. Seneca makes his cases in a sensible, even witty, fashion, usually without a censorious tone. This may well prove the most important volume in the series.

Das Buch wendet sich an Fachleute ebenso wie Studierende und das allgemeine Publikum. Es präsentiert eine ungewöhnliche Vielfalt von Beiträgern verschiedener Generationen, Fachrichtungen und nationaler Wissenskulturen, teilweise zum ersten Mal überhaupt in Englisch. Gemeinsam betonen sie die Einheit von Senecas Oeuvre und seine Originalität als Mittler stoischen Gedankenguts in den literarischen Formen des Prinzipats.

In life Jerome's authority was frequently questioned, yet following his death he was venerated as a saint. Andrew Cain systematically examines Jerome's idealized self-presentation across the extant epistolary corpus, exploring how and why Jerome used letter writing as a means to bid for status as an expert on the Bible and ascetic spirituality.