Epistulae Morales Selectae
Chapter 1 of 12 01 - Epistulae 1, 2, 6, 7
0:00
23:16
- Running time
- 5 h 42 min
- Language
- Latin
- Read by
- Malone (1945 - 2023)
Chapters
About this recording
Seneca is an important repository of Stoic doctrine. His reputation, based on the ancient testimony, has remained ambiguous down to the present day: he was a Stoic hero who attempted to advise Nero, he was a dissolute hypocrite, he was a Christian saint. That said, his letters provided a format for philosophical discourse that long remained valid for Western Europe. His musings always sprang from concrete situations: the games in the Coliseum, the noise from a public bath below his apartment. Montaigne admired the style of his Latin, which he called "nerveux": taut and full of energy. (Summary by Malone)