Natural Questions (The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca)

God bless you Harry M. Hine.

Seneca is wise, his writings also. Difficult it is to quote him, and not present good thoughts. He is more lengthy than Aurelius, but none the less on point.

Natural Questions is the first volume of a planned eight volume translation of Seneca's works by the University of Chicago Press. In this volume noted Scottish Harry M. Hine, admirably adds copious footnotes, references and a superb introduction which help the average reader absorb the context of Seneca's life and death. Seneca was the "Roman Socrates". His writing on the natural phenomena such as lightning and thunder, fire, earthquakes show us the beginning of scientific thought as well as the stoic's reflection that nature provides beauty and abundance. This volume also changes the order of the eight books, 3,4a,4b,5,6,7,1 and 2 as arguably the order in which they were written.A student of the stoics will appreciate as the years go by the physical beauty of this series. The University of Chicago has done an excellent job of selecting everything from the typeface to the bindings to the book jackets with a degree of preservation which bibliophiles will soon miss when all things are digital.The books are printed in the United States on archival paper.