{"product_id":"natural-questions-volume-ii","title":"Natural Questions, Volume II","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFollowing nature in pursuit of ethics.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeneca,  Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BC, of a prominent and  wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunt’s  care. He became famous in rhetoric, philosophy, money-making, and  imperial service. After some disgrace during Claudius’ reign he became  tutor and then, in AD 54, advising minister to Nero, some of whose worst  misdeeds he did not prevent. Involved (innocently?) in a conspiracy, he  killed himself by order in 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e We have Seneca’s philosophical or moral essays (ten of them  traditionally called Dialogues)—on providence, steadfastness, the happy  life, anger, leisure, tranquility, the brevity of life, gift-giving,  forgiveness—and treatises on natural phenomena. Also extant are 124  epistles, in which he writes in a relaxed style about moral and ethical  questions, relating them to personal experiences; a skit on the official  deification of Claudius, \u003ci\u003eApocolocyntosis\u003c\/i\u003e (in LCL 15); and nine rhetorical tragedies on ancient Greek themes. Many epistles and all his speeches are lost.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe treatises on natural phenomena, \u003ci\u003eNaturales Quaestiones\u003c\/i\u003e, are collected in Volumes VII and X of the Loeb Classical Library’s ten-volume edition of Seneca.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54241700053336,"sku":"9780674995031","price":31.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780674995031_1b27f455-b2cb-4ee3-b460-30851e3e88ca.jpg?v=1779425129","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/natural-questions-volume-ii","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}