How to Die (eBook)

An Ancient Guide to the End of Life

Seneca (Autor)

James S. Romm (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
256 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8948-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Timeless wisdom on death and dying from the celebrated Stoic philosopher Seneca"e;It takes an entire lifetime to learn how to die,"e; wrote the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca (c. 4 BC-65 AD). He counseled readers to "e;study death always,"e; and took his own advice, returning to the subject again and again in all his writings, yet he never treated it in a complete work. How to Die gathers in one volume, for the first time, Seneca's remarkable meditations on death and dying. Edited and translated by James S. Romm, How to Die reveals a provocative thinker and dazzling writer who speaks with a startling frankness about the need to accept death or even, under certain conditions, to seek it out. Seneca believed that life is only a journey toward death and that one must rehearse for death throughout life. Here, he tells us how to practice for death, how to die well, and how to understand the role of a good death in a good life. He stresses the universality of death, its importance as life's final rite of passage, and its ability to liberate us from pain, slavery, or political oppression. Featuring beautifully rendered new translations, How to Die also includes an enlightening introduction, notes, the original Latin texts, and an epilogue presenting Tacitus's description of Seneca's grim suicide.

Autor

James S. Romm is the author of Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero and Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire (both Knopf). He has written essays and reviews for the Wall Street Journal, the New York Review of Books, and the New Yorker website, among other publications. He is the James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics at Bard College and lives in Barrytown, New York.

Produkt-Details

• Reihe/Serie: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
• Reihe/Serie: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
• Einführung: James S. Romm
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga ► Cartoon / Graphic Novel
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Trennung / Trauer
• Schlagworte: 30s BC • Adiaphora • adolescence • Aeneid • All Fools • ALL THINGS • Annals (Tacitus) • assassination • Asthma • Astyages • Aufidius Bassus • autocracy • Battle of Carrhae • Boredom • Breakup • burial • Cacus • Cambyses II • carriage • Cato the Younger • Certainty • chief adviser • cruelty • Decimus Junius Brutus (consul 77 BC) • Decimus (praenomen) • De Providentia • Discourses of Epictetus • Disfigurement • Disgust • Eloquence • Epicureanism • Epistle • Equanimity • Eunuch • First Order (Star Wars) • Foe (novel) • Forced suicide • greatness • Hallucinogen • Harpagus • human body • In Death • Marcia (gens) • Marcia (mistress of Commodus) • Marcia (wife of Cato the Younger) • Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (triumvir) • Marcus Licinius Crassus • Marcus Porcius Cato (son of Cato the Younger) • Mark Antony • meal • month • Murder • Orcus • Palinurus • phalaris • Philosopher • Philosophy • phlegm • pity • Politician • Pompeia Paulina • Pompey • Principate • Prose • Psilocybin • psychedelic experience • Quantity • Reincarnation • Roman civil wars • Roman law • Ruler • sadness • Sailing • school of thought • Scribonia • Self-preservation • shackle • Slavery • solid Earth • Stoicism • Suetonius • Suffering • Tacitus • terminal illness • The Death of Socrates • The Voyage of Life • Thought • Thunderstorm • Tiberius • Torpor • Torture • treatise • Trojan War • Tuberculosis • Turnus • V. • Virgil • Voluntary euthanasia • Wealth • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8948-0 / 1400889480
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8948-8 / 9781400889488