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How To Die: An Ancient Guide To The End Of Life

Name: How To Die: An Ancient Guide To The End Of Life
SKU: 9780691175577
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By (author) Seneca, Edited and translated by James S. Romm

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Timeless wisdom on death and dying from the celebrated Stoic philosopher Seneca.

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ISBN: 9780691175577

Book Format: Hardback

Pages: 256

Dimensions: 11.4 × 17.8 cm

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Format Hardback | 256 pages
Dimensions 11.4 × 17.8 cm | 295
Publication Date 27 February 2018
Publisher Princeton University Press
Publication City/Country United States

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Seneca

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James S. Romm is the author of Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero and Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire (both Knopf). He has written essays and reviews for the Wall Street Journal, the New York Review of Books, and the New Yorker website, among other publications. He is the James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics at Bard College and lives in Barrytown, New York.

James S. Romm

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