Seneca

  • Seneca: Moral Epistles
    By Anna Lydia Motto

    Seneca: Moral Epistles

  • Seneca: A Life
    By Emily Wilson

    Philosopher, dramatist, rhetorician, Stoic and pragmatist, Seneca was one of the most contradictory figures in ancient Rome, embracing a stern ascetic morality while amassing a fortune under Nero and eventually committing suicide.

  • Seneca
    By Emily Wilson

    Emily Wilson es profesora de Estudios Clásicos en la Escuela de Artes y Ciencias de la Universidad de Pensilvania (EE.UU), y experta en literatura clásica y comparada.

  • Seneca: Medea
    By Helen Slaney

    Among the numerous tragedies attributed to Ennius is at least one entitled Medea Exul (Medea Exiled), and possibly another Medea as well, although these may be the same play.30 Medea Exul appears to be a translation of Euripides.

  • Seneca
    By Christopher Star

    In both plays Eteocles and Polynices die; Seneca's play abruptly ends before they join battle. Seneca's Phoenissae consists of only 664 lines and does not contain a chorus. This suggests that Seneca did not complete this work and that ...

  • Seneca: Phaedra
    By Lucius Annaeus Seneca

    This new edition concentrates on the dramatic qualities of Phaedra and examines the Greek and Roman background to the play, particularly Seneca's use of Euripides and Ovid, and its philosophical elements grounded in Seneca's Stoicism.

  • Seneca: Fifty Letters of a Roman Stoic
    By Lucius Annaeus Seneca

    What is it that is yours? Yourself; the best part of you.” In the year 62, citing health issues, the Roman philosopher Seneca withdrew from public service and devoted his time to writing.

  • Seneca: Medea
    By Helen Slaney

    'The influence of pantomime on Seneca's tragedies' in Hall and Wyles (eds) New Directions in Ancient Pantomime. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 227–57. Zanobi, A. 2014. Seneca's Tragedies and the Aesthetics of Pantomime.

  • Seneca: Selected Letters
    By Seneca

    A commentary on Livy: books vi–x, vol. ii: Books vii–viii, Oxford 2005a. A commentary on Livy: books vi–x, vol. iii: Book ix, Oxford 2005b. A commentary on Livy: books vi–x, vol. iv: Book BIBLIOGRAPHY 325.

  • Seneca: Hercules Furens
    By Neil Bernstein

    Hercules is the best-known character from classical mythology. Seneca's play Hercules Furens presents the hero at a moment of triumph turned to tragedy.

  • Seneca
    By John G. Fitch

    Statesman, dramatist, philosopher, and prose stylist, Seneca was a leading figure in the Roman Empire in the first century AD. This volume is a collection of outstanding articles written about him during the last four decades, with a new ...

  • Seneca: The Life of a Stoic
    By Paul Veyne

    Veyne's authoritative exposition of stoicism and the interconnections between Seneca's life and thought, make this book ideal reading for anyone interested in Roman history and philosophy.

  • Seneca: De Clementia
    By Susanna Braund

    ... Octavia', in id. (ed.), The Tragedy of Nero's Wife: Studies on the Octavia Praetexta = Prudentia, 35. 1 (2003), 1–12. The play may have been written very soon after the end of Nero's reign; see P. Kragelund, Prophecy, Populism, and ...

  • Seneca: The Tragedies
    By Seneca

    The surprise is that Seneca's world is so like our own. This volume includes five of Seneca's tragedies--"Trojan Women, Thyestes, Phaedra, Medea" and "Agamemnon". (Drama)

  • Seneca: Selected Dialogues and Consolations
    By Seneca

    Notable for, among other things, their portrait of a providential universe and defense of the life of virtue, the nine dialogues included in this volume illustrate the deeply intertwined cosmological and moral arguments of ancient Rome’s ...

  • Seneca: Moral and Political Essays
    By Lucius Annaeus Seneca

    This volume offers clear and forceful contemporary translations of the most important of Seneca's 'Moral Essays': On Anger, On Mercy, On the Private Life and the first four books of On Favours.

  • Seneca: Selected Dialogues and Consolations
    By Lucius Annaeus Seneca

    Notable for, among other things, their portrait of a providential universe and defense of the life of virtue, the nine dialogues included in this volume illustrate the deeply intertwined cosmological and moral arguments of ancient Rome's ...