Moral Letters, Vol. I: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Moral Letters, Vol. I, credited to Lucius Annaeus Seneca, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Moral Letters, Vol. I by Lucius Annaeus Seneca. (Translated by Richard M. Gummere.) Read in English by Felipe Vogel. "Among the personalities of the early Roman Empire there are few who offer to the readers of to-day such dramatic interest as does Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the author of the Epistles which are translated in this volume. ... In these letters, it is impossible to ignore the advance from a somewhat stiff and Ciceronian point of view into the attractive and debatable land of what one may fairly call modern ideas. The style of the Epistles is bold, and so is the thought." (from the Introduction)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Moral Letters, Vol. I
• Author credits: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 66
• Listed recording duration: 9:39:28

Catalogue topics

• philosophy
• Latin
• classics
• Roman
• wisdom
• letter
• Stoicism

Opening tracks: first 24 of 66

1. 00 - Introduction — 15:14
2. 01 - On Saving Time — 4:39
3. 02 - On Discursiveness in Reading — 5:00
4. 03 - On True and False Friendship — 5:55
5. 04 - On the Terrors of Death — 8:09
6. 05 - On the Philosopher's Mean — 6:37
7. 06 - On Sharing Knowledge — 5:24
8. 07 - On Crowds — 9:34
9. 08 - On the Philosopher's Seclusion — 7:40
10. 09 - On Philosophy and Friendship — 16:52
11. 10 - On Living to Oneself — 4:12
12. 11 - On the Blush of Modesty — 5:59
13. 12 - On Old Age — 9:54
14. 13 - On Groundless Fears — 13:18
15. 14 - On the Reasons for Withdrawing from the World — 14:58
16. 15 - On Brawn and Brains — 9:26
17. 16 - On Philosophy, the Guide of Life — 7:31
18. 17 - On Philosophy and Riches — 8:34
19. 18 - On Festivals and Fasting — 10:15
20. 19 - On Worldliness and Retirement — 11:09
21. 20 - On Practising What You Preach — 9:19
22. 21 - On the Renown Which My Writings Will Bring You — 9:21
23. 22 - On the Futility of Half-Way Measures — 12:54
24. 23 - On the True Joy Which Comes from Philosophy — 8:05

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