Harry M. Hine Libros

Klappentext"The author is the world's leading authority on this work, having in 1995 edited it for the Teubner series after many previous published contributions. This collection of over two hundred textual notes is issued as a companion to that edition and discusses „passages where I have taken a different view of the text from my predecessors, or where I think more needs to be said to justify the text that others have adopted.“ His expertise and generally sound judgment are in evidence on every page. Such a book finds publishers less easily than formerly, and B. G. Teubner is to be congratulated on a significant service to Latin scholarship. There is a list of twenty-two editions from 1409 to 1989, a bibliography of authors referred to in the volume, and indexes." D. R. Shackleton Bailey. Religious Studies Review, Valparaiso

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE–65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and adviser to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature. The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca is a fresh and compelling series of new English-language translations of his works in eight accessible volumes. Edited by world-renowned classicists Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C. Nussbaum, this engaging collection restores Seneca—whose works have been highly praised by modern authors from Desiderius Erasmus to Ralph Waldo Emerson—to his rightful place among the classical writers most widely studied in the humanities. Written near the end of Seneca’s life, <i>Natural Questions </i>is a work in which Seneca expounds and comments on the natural sciences of his day—rivers and earthquakes, wind and snow, meteors and comets—offering us a valuable look at the ancient scientific mind at work. The modern reader will find fascinating insights into ancient philosophical and scientific approaches to the physical world and also vivid evocations of the grandeur, beauty, and terror of nature.