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COPY LINK: https://pdf.bookcenterapp.com/yumpu/022621222X Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE&#821165 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and advisor to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature. The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca is a fresh and compelling series of new English-language translations of his works in eight accessible volumes. Edited by world-renowned classicists Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C. Nussbaum, this engaging collection restores Seneca&#8213whose works have been highly praised by modern authors from Desiderius Erasmus to Ralph Waldo Emerson&#8213to his rightful place among the classical writers most widely studied in the humanities.On Benefits, written between 56 and 64 CE, is a treatise addressed to Seneca&#8217s close friend Aebutius Liberalis. The longest of Seneca&#8217s works dealing with a single subject&#8213how to give and receive benefits and how to express gratitude appropriately&#8213On Benefits is the only complete work on what we now call &#8220gift exchange&#8221 to survive from antiquity. Benefits were of great personal significance to Seneca, who remarked in one of his later letters that philosophy teaches, above all else, to owe and repay benefits well.

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE&#821165 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and advisor to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature. The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca is a fresh and compelling series of new English-language translations of his works in eight accessible volumes. Edited by world-renowned classicists Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C. Nussbaum, this engaging collection restores Seneca&#8213whose works have been highly praised by modern authors from Desiderius Erasmus to Ralph Waldo Emerson&#8213to his rightful place among the classical writers most widely studied in the humanities.On Benefits, written between 56 and 64 CE, is a treatise addressed to Seneca&#8217s close friend Aebutius Liberalis. The longest of Seneca&#8217s works dealing with a single subject&#8213how to give and receive benefits and how to express gratitude appropriately&#8213On Benefits is the only complete work on what we now call &#8220gift exchange&#8221 to survive from antiquity. Benefits were of great personal significance to Seneca, who remarked in one of his later letters that philosophy teaches, above all else, to owe and repay benefits well.

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COPY LINK: https://pdf.bookcenterapp.com/yumpu/022621222X Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4

BCE&#821165CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and advisor to the

emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature. The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus

Seneca is a fresh and compelling series of new English-language translations of his works in eight

accessible volumes. Edited by world-renowned classicists Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and

Martha C. Nussbaum, this engaging collection restores Seneca&#8213whse works have been

highly praised by modern authors from Desiderius Erasmus to Ralph Waldo Emerson&#8213tohis

rightful place among the classical writers most widely studied in the humanities.On Benefits,

written between 56 and 64 CE, is a treatise addressed to Seneca&#8217sclose friend Aebutius

Liberalis. The longest of Seneca&#8217sworks dealing with a single subject&#8213ho to give and

receive benefits and how to express gratitude appropriately&#8213OnBenefits is the only

complete work on what we now call &#8220git exchange&#8221to survive from antiquity. Benefits

were of great personal significance to Seneca, who remarked in one of his later letters that

philosophy teaches, above all else, to owe and repay benefits well.

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