Epistulae Morales Selectae
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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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
Christian
Thank you for this recording. I wish you would read som Aesopica or more Seneca.