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Magical Tome
- First published
- 1969
- Latest edition
- 2016
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Pages
- 254 pages
- ISBN
- 0140442103
Letters from a Stoic
The outer archives are busy
About this book
The power and wealth which Seneca the Younger (C.4 B.C.- A.D. 65) acquired as Nero's minister were in conflict with his Stoic beliefs. Nevertheless he was the outstanding figure of his age. The Stoic philosophy which Seneca professed in his writings, later supported by Marcus Aurelius, provided Rome with a passable bridge to Christianity. Seneca's major contribution to Stoicism was to spiritualize and humanize a system which could appear cold and unrealistic.
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