Epistulae Morales Selectae


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(2.8 stars; 10 reviews)

Seneca is an important repository of Stoic doctrine. His reputation, based on the ancient testimony, has remained ambiguous down to the present day: he was a Stoic hero who attempted to advise Nero, he was a dissolute hypocrite, he was a Christian saint. That said, his letters provided a format for philosophical discourse that long remained valid for Western Europe. His musings always sprang from concrete situations: the games in the Coliseum, the noise from a public bath below his apartment. Montaigne admired the style of his Latin, which he called "nerveux": taut and full of energy. (Summary by Malone) (5 hr 41 min)

Chapters

01 - Epistulae 1, 2, 6, 7 23:16 Read by Malone
02 - Epistulae 8, 9, 10 28:30 Read by Malone
03 - Epistulae 15, 16, 26, 27 30:10 Read by Malone
04 - Epistulae 28, 31, 37, 38, 40 31:24 Read by Malone
05 - Epistulae 41, 44, 47 27:54 Read by Malone
06 - Epistulae 49, 51, 55, 57 33:40 Read by Malone
07 - Epistulae 60, 61, 63, 70 34:17 Read by Malone
08 - Epistula 71 27:42 Read by Malone
09 - Epistulae 72, 73 20:58 Read by Malone
10 - Epistula 74 26:21 Read by Malone
11 - Epistulae 75, 76 35:48 Read by Malone
12 - Epistulae 79, 80 21:56 Read by Malone

Reviews


(5 stars)

Thank you for this recording. I wish you would read som Aesopica or more Seneca.