Seneca’s Stoic meditations on accepting death, dying well, and rehearsing for life’s end, newly translated and collected.
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Seneca’s Stoic meditations on accepting death, dying well, and rehearsing for life’s end, newly translated and collected.
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Timeless wisdom on death and dying from the celebrated Stoic philosopher Seneca "It takes an entire lifetime to learn how to die," wrote the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca (c. 4 BC–65 AD). He counseled readers to "study death always," 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 Jam...
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Sexual content
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No romantic or sexual content present
Violence & gore
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Historical account of Seneca’s suicide; references to violent death
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Stoic philosophy on fate, nature, and death; Roman religious context
Magic & witchcraft
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Occult / demonology
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Themes of tyranny, oppression, and liberation from political power
Self-harm / suicide
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Central theme; suicide as choice; Tacitus’s grim account of Seneca’s death
Abuse & suffering
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References to slavery, pain, and political oppression as suffering
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