Seneca (Routledge Revivals)

<p>This volume first published in 1974 offers a selection of modern perspectives on Seneca covering his prose treatises his letters and his tragedies. A large part of <i>Seneca</i> is devoted to this later influence at the deliberate expense of not covering all of Seneca's less familiar works. The <i>Moral Essays</i> the tragedies and the letters to Lucilius are examined who also discuss Seneca's philosophical influence and his heritage in English and neo-Latin literature. Each essay contain is of value to the specialist as well as to students of Latin English or French literature.</p>