Breakfast with Seneca: A Stoic Guide to the Art of Living

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

THANKS TO GILES ANDERSON, QUYNH DO, AND ALANE Mason for making this book happen, and to Nancy Green for her excellent editing. Special praise is also due to the team at Norton for their incredible work: Drew Elizabeth Weitman, Rebecca Munro, Elisabeth Kerr, Nicola DeRobertis-Theye, and Jason Heuer.

I am grateful to John Sellars, Donald Robertson, and Massimo Pigliucci for the engaging conversations I had with them while writing this work. Of course, they are not responsible for my own views. I am also thankful to William O. Stephens for the feedback he provided on the introduction and chapter 1, and to Rob Colter for his comments on the entire manuscript. I similarly appreciate the feedback received from Kai Whiting, Judith Stove, and Sandra Muratović.

The Stoic philosophical quotations in this book were newly translated by me, working in collaboration with Elizabeth Mercier, a Latin and Greek professor at Purdue University. Working with Liz to build a bridge between Seneca’s thought and the modern world was a memorable undertaking. We both hope that you will enjoy these fresh translations of Seneca and, more importantly, the access they provide to his still living ideas and arguments.