{"product_id":"seneca-by-emily-wilson-9780718193508","title":"Seneca","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe definitive biography of ancient Rome's most powerful and colourful philosopher-politician.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSeneca\u003c\/em\u003e traces the eventful life of Seneca, the Roman philosopher, dramatist, essayist and rhetorician of the first century CE. Coming from Spain to Rome, Seneca spent his youth in Egypt and was exiled to Corsica under Claudius, only to be recalled after eight years. He ascended to dizzying heights of wealth, power, and social influence under Nero, before ultimately falling from favour and being forced to end his own life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book analyses the relationship between Seneca's life story and his literary self-fashioning, highlighting the tensions between the external worlds of politics, consumerism, and social success, and the Stoic ideals of asceticism, virtue, and self-control.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46343637631212,"sku":"9780718193508","price":34.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/19150113482443.jpg?v=1744001474","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/seneca-by-emily-wilson-9780718193508","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}