The Loeb Classical Library: Natural Questions, Volume II : Books 4–7

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The Loeb Classical Library: Natural Questions, Volume II : Books 4–7Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BC, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunts care. He became famous in rhetoric, philosophy, money making, and imperial service. After some disgrace during Claudius reign he became tutor and then, in AD 54, advising minister to Nero, some of whose worst misdeeds he did not prevent. Involved (innocently?) in a conspiracy, he killed himself by order

complete with the original Latin on facing pages and an inviting introduction

After a brief analysis of the genre and main figures

Pseudolus of all Plautus' comedies most fully reveals its author's metapoetics

These alluring cartes postales of Greece brighten her life and cast a spell on her

practice dialogues

leaving us four books of elegies that have attracted admirers throughout the ages

John Barsby gives us a faithful and lively translation with full explanatory notes

Herodotus' Ionic dialect has been changed into the Attic Greek which will be familiar to early language learners

but the emphasis is on Thucydides’ subject-matter — the Peloponnesian War presented as the greatest war in Greek history

που κάνουν την ανάγνωση ακόμα πιο ενδιαφέρουσα

Τώρα όμως τον βιώνει κάθε μέρα

and textual transmission