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How to Be Content : An Ancient Poet's Guide for an Age of Excess /
"The Roman poet Horace (65-8 BC) has long been read as a wise and pragmatic guide to living a good life. Writing at the very moment when Rome was transitioning from a republic to an empire, Romans found the advice in his poems appealing: live quietly and non-extravagantly amid the excesses of a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Idioma: | Inglés Latín |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2020.
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| Colección: | Ancient wisdom for modern readers.
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| 505 | 0 | |a The search for the good life -- The importance of friendship -- Love--the problem of passion -- Death--the final frontier. | |
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