Hardship and Happiness (The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca)

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE–65 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 Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C. Nussbaum, this engaging collection helps restore Seneca—whose works have been highly praised by modern authors from Desiderius Erasmus to Ralph Waldo Emerson—to his rightful place among the classical writers most widely studied in the humanities.

Hardship and Happiness collects a range of essays intended to instruct, from consolations—works that offer comfort to someone who has suffered a personal loss—to pieces on how to achieve happiness or tranquility in the face of a difficult world. Expertly translated, the essays will be read and used by undergraduate philosophy students and experienced scholars alike.

• Letters on Ethics: To Lucilius (The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
• Anger, Mercy, Revenge (The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
• On Benefits (The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
• Natural Questions (The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
• How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
• Discourses, Fragments, Handbook (Oxford Worlds Classics)
• The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User's Manual
• What Is Ancient Philosophy?
• Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault
• Dialogues and Essays (Oxford World's Classics)