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Names: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D., author. | Romm, James S., translator.
Title: How to give : an ancient guide to giving and receiving / Seneca ; selected, translated, and introduced by James S. Romm.
Other titles: De beneficiis. Selections English | An ancient guide to giving and receiving
Description: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020007754 (print) | LCCN 2020007755 (ebook) | ISBN 9780691192093 (acid-free paper) | ISBN 9780691211367 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Conduct of life—Early works to 1800. | Benevolence—Early works to 1800.
Classification: LCC BJ1550 .S4613 2020 (print) | LCC BJ1550 (ebook) | DDC 177/.7—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020007754
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Jacket Credit: Empress Livia Drusilla, wife of Augustus, as Ceres, 38 BC. Marble sculpture, Roman. Photo: Hervé Lewandowski / Musée du Louvre. © RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY