How to Give: An Ancient Guide to Giving and Receiving

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How to Give: An Ancient Guide to Giving and ReceivingTimeless wisdom on generosity and gratitude from the great Stoic philosopher Seneca. To give and receive well may be the most human thing you can dobut it is also the closest you can come to divinity. So argues the great Roman Stoic thinker Seneca (c. 4 BCE65 CE) in his longest and most searching moral treatise, On Benefits (De Beneficiis). James Romms splendid new translation of essential selections from this work conveys the heart of Senecas

modes of life

This useful school edition of all four of Cicero's speeches against Catiline consists of a concise but thorough and very useful Introduction giving background on Cicero

62 and 64 lines 124–264

These include a survey of the three main approaches to Latin teaching: grammar-translation

This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 3) prescription of Catullus' poems 5

Going beyond language learning

With its kaleidoscopic blend of fact and legend

friendship and love

το δημοφιλέστερο απ' όλα τα έργα της Τζέην Ώστεν

and an epilogue presenting Tacitus's description of Seneca's grim suicide

both sadly lost

and bizarre

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