How to Give: An Ancient Guide to Giving and Receiving - Hardcover
by Seneca
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Availability:In StockContributor:Seneca, James S. Romm (Editor), James S. Romm (Translator)Series:Ancient Wisdom for Modern ReadersPublish date:2020-10-20Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691192093ISBN-10:069119209XUPC:9780691192093Book Category:Philosophy, Self-HelpBook Subcategory:History & Surveys, Ethics & Moral PhilosophyBook Topic:Ancient & ClassicalSize:6.90 x 4.60 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCKZYDS3PZ
How to Give: An Ancient Guide to Giving and Receiving
Timeless wisdom on generosity and gratitude from the great Stoic philosopher Seneca
To give and receive well may be the most human thing you can do--but it is also the closest you can come to divinity. So argues the great Roman Stoic thinker Seneca (c. 4 BCE-65 CE) in his longest and most searching moral treatise, "On Benefits" (De Beneficiis). James Romm's splendid new translation of essential...Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691192093ISBN-10:069119209XUPC:9780691192093Book Category:Philosophy, Self-HelpBook Subcategory:History & Surveys, Ethics & Moral PhilosophyBook Topic:Ancient & ClassicalSize:6.90 x 4.60 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCKZYDS3PZ
James Romm is the editor and translator of Seneca's How to Keep Your Cool and How to Die (both Princeton) and the author of Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero. He has written for the Wall Street Journal, the New York Review of Books, and the London Review of Books, among other publications. He is the James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics at Bard College and lives in Barrytown, New...
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