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

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Frontispiece: Bronze sculpture of Seneca in Córdoba, Spain.

Photography by Ken Welsh / Alamy. Used with permission.

Copyright © 2022 by David Fideler

Text and original translations by David Fideler

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:

Names: Fideler, David R., 1961– author.

Title: Breakfast with Seneca : a Stoic guide to the art of living / David Fideler.

Description: First edition. | New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2022] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021035112 | ISBN 9780393531664 | ISBN 9780393531671 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.–65 A.D. | Stoics. | Ethics. | Philosophy, Ancient.

Classification: LCC B618 .F53 2022 | DDC 188—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021035112

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