Four Dialogues
Subtitle: De vita beata, De tranquillitate animi, De Constantia sapientis, Ad Helviam matrem de consolatione
By: Seneca ; edited by C.D.N. Costa.
Contributors: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D.; Costa, Charles Desmond Nuttall.
Publisher: Aris & Phillips
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Warminster
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
Subjects: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, -- ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Work titles: Dialogues.
Description: The Dialogues were an important medium for the spreading of Greek philosophical theories to the Roman world and to subsequent ages. This selection is of complete, not excerpted, dialogues. The commentary concentrates on subject matter and the philosophical ideas informing the treatises, though help is also given where needed on grammatical and lexical points. The four chosen dialogues give a fair idea of the range of Seneca's philosophical interests and of his didactic techniques.

This is the first serious commentary in English on any of Seneca's Dialogues since Duff (1915).
Notes: Parallel text in Latin and English; commentary in English.

Includes bibliographical references.