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How to Have a Life: An Ancient Guide to Using Our Time Wisely

Name: How to Have a Life: An Ancient Guide to Using Our Time Wisely
Brand: Princeton University Press
SKU: 9780691219127
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Contributors:

Seneca, James S. Romm (Editor)

Publisher:

Princeton University Press

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

Philosophy, Self-Help

Book Subcategory:

History & Surveys, Personal Growth, Self-Management

Book Topic:

Ancient & Classical, Happiness, Time Management

Series:

Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers

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Release Date:

2022-10-18

ISBN 13:

9780691219127

Weight:

0.65 lbs

Size:

6.90 x 4.60 x 0.80 inches

Pages:

200

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A vibrant new translation of Seneca's "On the Shortness of Life," a pointed reminder to make the most of our time

Who doesn't worry sometimes that smart phones, the Internet, and TV are robbing us of time and preventing us from having a life? How can we make the most of our time on earth? In the first century AD, the Stoic philosopher Seneca the Younger offered one of the most famous answers to that question in his essay "On the Shortness of Life"--a work that has more to teach us today than ever before. In How to Have a Life, James Romm presents a vibrant new translation of Seneca's brilliant essay, plus two Senecan letters on the same theme, complete with the original Latin on facing pages and an inviting introduction.

With devastating satiric wit, skillfully captured in this translation, Seneca lampoons the ways we squander our time and fail to realize how precious it is. We don't allow people to steal our money, yet we allow them to plunder our time, or else we give it away ourselves in useless, idle pursuits. Seneca also describes how we can make better use of our brief days and years. In the process, he argues, we can make our lives longer, or even everlasting, because to live a real life is to attain a kind of immortality.

A counterweight to the time-sucking distractions of the modern world, How to Have a Life offers priceless wisdom about making our time--and our lives--count.

About the Author
James S. Romm is an author, a book reviewer, and the James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics at Bard College. He is the editor and translator of Seneca's How to Give, How to Keep Your Cool, and How to Die (all Princeton), and the author of Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero. His reviews and essays have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the London Review of Books, the Daily Beast, and other publications. He lives in Barrytown, New York.

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