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Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - altersgem�sehr guter Zustand / very good condition for age - PREFACE -- Interest in Seneca in the twentieth century is, to be sure, increasing. Perhaps it was to be expected that the Tragedies were to receive further surveillance; but it is, strikingly, no less the case for the Prose Works. One need merely point to the two Senecan projects currently in progress in Belgium and France - the Li� Index verborum and the Paris Concordance of the prose writings - to make this growing concern with the philosophical writings evident. Yet it has been rightly observed that, since Haase�s edition of the Prose in the middle of the last century, no edition of Seneca has been devised with enough indices and other aids �that attempt to help the reader to follow Seneca�s thought.� -- It is a sign of the general drift of Western classicism since that time that later editions, far more �scientific� though they are, offer no such aids. -- The present study attempts to supply such a need. -- Seneca Sourcebook, however, is not intended merely as a dictionary or word index; rather, it is a citation and grouping of the fundamental ideas that preoccupy the renowned Stoic philosopher in his extant prose works - the Epistulae Morales, Dialogi, De Beneficiis, De Clementia, and Quaestiones Naturales. The important words and phrases Seneca employs have been analyzed and arranged alphabetically, printed in bold face. For reader�s convenience, the Sourcebook�s major ideas are cross-referenced. Citations of Senecan sources are uniform throughout: Ep. LXV. 2 or De Clem. I. xix. 8, each occurrence separated by a semicolon. Since all occurrences of an idea are assembled together, the reader may obtain at a glance a knowledge of that idea�s frequency and import. -- It has sometimes been asserted against Seneca that he too much abounds in Stoic commonplaces and is lacking in �depth of thought.� The present Sourcebook should make trenchantly clear the wide range, the variety, and the deliberate eclecticism of his thought. With a frankness, individualism, and insight unusual in any age, Seneca was willing to confront every human virtue and every human weakness -including his own. With the present arrangement and display of his essential thought, Seneca will have to stand on his own. - He assuredly can. ISBN 9789025605421