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Jannik Lindquist's avatar

The quote is from Harry Hines' wonderful translation of "Natural questions" published by Chicago University Press in 2010 as part of the series "The complete works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca" ed. by Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch and Martha C. Nussbaum.

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ikester8's avatar

Thank you, just bought it. Looking forward to the whole series.

Ike

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Jannik Lindquist's avatar

Great, Ike! I highly recommend Gareth Williams' book about it - called "The Cosmic Viewpoint". Also, there is a great online commentary on book 3 here:

https://oberlinclassics.com/seneca-naturales-quaestiones-3-bibliography/

Gareth Williams has written a very extensive article on the relationship between "Natural questions" and the letters in the anthology "Seneca Philosophus" edited by Jula Wildberger. The article is called "Double Vision and Cross- Reading in Seneca's Epistulae Morales and Naturales Quaestiones".

Brad Inwood has written a great article about "Natural questions" which can be found in his book "Reading Seneca". The article is called: Good and Human Knowledge in Seneca's Natural Questions".

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Jannik Lindquist's avatar

Harry Hines introduction to his own translation is also superb :-)

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Elin Tindra Askerød - Guvaag's avatar

Beautiful wow✨💖

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ikester8's avatar

In that anything has a chance to understand itself, I give the human mind the best shot in the known universe, but I'm not terribly optimistic. It's hard enough understanding our bodies.

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