Thyestes - Seneca
Agamemnon. Thyestes. Hercules Oetaeus. Phoenissae. Octavia (Loeb Classical Library)
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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) C.5 or 4 B.C. of a noble and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunt's care. He was victim of life-long neurosis but became famous in rhetoric, philosophy, money-making, and imperial service. After some disgrace during Claudius' reign he became tutor and then, in A.D. 54, advising minister to Nero, some of whose worst misdeed he did not prevent. Involved (innocently?) in a conspiracy, he killed himself by order in A.D. 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.
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Loeb Classical Library, nrs 62/78. Harvard University Press: London, 1987 / 1999. Cloth with gilt lettering and dustwrapper, v-vi. 541 / 569 pp. Lightly faded spine wrapper. Translation: Frank Justus Miller. Appendix, index. 17x11.5x5.5 cm. In very good condition. [Parcel service]. Sold as a set only. [Categorie: Klassieken] [Auteur: Seneca.] [Pagina's: 569] [Jaar: 1987] [Titel: IX Tragedies II / Tragedies VIII.]
