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"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 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. 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.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy History of Western philosophy

• Full title: How to Die
• Author: E. F. Watling Seneca
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9780691175577
• ISBN: 9780691175577
• ID: 18210110
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Weight: 306 g
• Dimensions: 182 × 124 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. December 2017

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