(1.1) Most of mankind, Paulinus, complains about nature's meanness, because our allotted span of life is so short, and because this stretch of time that is given to us runs its course so quickly, so rapidly-so …

Seneca‟s geographical interests appear in the dispatch of an expedition „to investigate the source of the Nile‟. Yet another of his interests was shorthand, the Roman system of which he is said to have …

GENERAL WORKS The best life of Seneca is by Rene Waltz, Paris, 1909. A selection of the most important special works on this subject is given in an appendix to the volume. The editions of Ball …

Seneca, Moral and Political Essays, edited and translated by J.M. Cooper and J.F. Procopé (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1995). A third English translation is provided by Aubrey Stewart in …

His father was Seneca the Elder, his elder brother was Lucius Junius Gallio Annaeanus, and his nephew was the poet Lu- can. His stoic and calm suicide has become the subject of numerous paintings. As …

Seneca’s Letters to Lucilius are a rich source of information about ancient Stoicism, an influential work for early modern philosophers, and a fascinating philosophical document in their own right.

This new collection of essays by well-known scholars of Seneca focuses on the multifaceted ways in which Seneca, as philosopher, politician, poet and Roman senator, engaged with the question of …