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

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

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Moral Letters, Vol. II by Lucius Annaeus Seneca. (Translated by Richard M. Gummere.) Read in English by Suprada Urval. This is the second volume of the Letters, Epistles LXVI-XCII. 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. These letters, written by Seneca towards the end of his life, are all addressed to his friend Lucilius, who, at the time when these letters were written, was a procurator in Sicily. The form of this work, as Bacon says, is a collection of essays rather than of letters. Summary paraphrased from the Introduction in Volume 1 by Suprad.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Moral Letters, Vol. II
• Author credits: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 27
• Listed recording duration: 8:31:00

Catalogue topics

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

Opening tracks: first 24 of 27

1. 01 - Letter 66. On Various Aspects of Virtue — 38:12
2. 02 - Letter 67. On Ill-Health and Endurance of Suffering — 11:09
3. 03 - Letter 68. On Wisdom and Retirement — 9:28
4. 04 - Letter 69. On Rest and Restlessness — 3:52
5. 05 - Letter 70. On the Proper Time to Slip the Cable — 18:26
6. 06 - Letter 71. On the Supreme Good — 26:41
7. 07 - Letter 72. On Business as the Enemy of Philosophy — 8:48
8. 08 - Letter 73. On Philosophers and Kings — 10:19
9. 09 - Letter 74. On Virtue as a Refuge from Worldly Distractions — 25:17
10. 10 - Letter 75. On the Diseases of the Soul — 11:00
11. 11 - Letter 76. On Learning Wisdom in Old Age — 25:04
12. 12 - Letter 77. On Taking One’s Own Life — 13:22
13. 13 - Letter 78. On the Healing Power of the Mind — 21:05
14. 14 - Letter 79. On the Rewards of Scientific Discovery — 12:40
15. 15 - Letter 80. On Worldly Deceptions — 7:40
16. 16 - Letter 81. On Benefits — 24:04
17. 17 - Letter 82. On the Natural Fear of Death — 19:47
18. 18 - Letter 83. On Drunkenness — 19:33
19. 19 - Letter 84. On Gathering Ideas — 9:26
20. 20 - Letter 85. On Some Vain Syllogisms — 29:34
21. 21 - Letter 86. On Scipio’s Villa — 13:39
22. 22 - Letter 87. Some Arguments in Favour of the Simple Life — 27:20
23. 23 - Letter 88. On Liberal and Vocational Studies — 29:44
24. 24 - Letter 89. On the Parts of Philosophy — 16:56

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