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Also known as Seneca the Younger; Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist of the Silver Age of Latin literature; tutor and later advisor to the Emperor Nero
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Works
Dramatic works
- Collections
- The Eyght Tragedie of Seneca entituled Agamemnon translated out of Latin into English, by John Studley
- Seneca, his tenne tragedies, translated into Englyſh, transl. Jasper Heywood, Alexander Neville, John Studley, T. Nuce, Thomas Newton (1581) (external scan)
- The Ten Tragedies of Seneca, trans. Julian Watson Bradshaw (1902) (transcription project)
- The Tragedies of Seneca, trans. Frank Justus Miller (1907) (transcription project)
- Tragedies
- Agamemnon
- Hercules Furens (Madness of Hercules)
- Hercules Oetaeus (Hercules on Oeta)
- Medea
- Oedipus
- Phaedra (or Hippolytus)
- Phoenissae (Phoenician Women, or Thebais)
- Thyestes
- Troades (Trojan Women)
- Fabula praetexta
- Octavia (authorship disputed)
Letters
- Moral letters to Lucilius (Loeb Classical Library edition; translated by Gummere)
- Seneca's letter describing gladiators
- Correspondence of Paul and Seneca, now considered a forgery
- Compilations
- A New Translation of the Morals of Seneca, trans. by George Bennet (1745)
- The Epistles of Lucius Annæus Seneca, trans. by Thomas Morell (1786)
- The morals of Seneca: a selection of his prose, trans. by Walter Baker Clode (1888)
Essays
- Apocolocyntosis
- On Benefits (De Beneficiis)
- The Line of Liberalitie dulie directinge the wel bestowing of benefites and reprehending the comonly used vice of ingratitude, trans. by Nihcolas Haward (1569)
- The worke of the excellent philosopher Lucius Annæus Seneca trans. by Arthur Golding (1578)
- Naturales quaestiones, translated as Physical science in the time of Nero (external scan)
- Dialogues
- Moral essays. With an English translation by J.W. Basore 1928 vol 1, vol 3
- Dialogues by Seneca, translated to English by Aubrey Stewart (1887-1898) Full text
- On the Shortness of Life (De Brevitate Vitæ)
- Lucius Annæus Seneca, the philosopher, his booke of the shortnesse of life, trans. by Ralph Freeman (1636)
- Of a Happy Life (De Vita Beata)
- Of Providence (De Providentia)
- On the Firmness of the Wise Man (De Constantia Sapientis)
- Of Anger (De Ira)
- Of Leisure (De Otio)
- Of Peace of Mind (De Tranquillitate Animi)
- Of Clemency (De Clementia)
- Consolations
- Compilations
- A Fruitefull worke of Lucius Anneus Seneca, trans. by Robert Whittington (1547)
- Six excellent treatises of life and death, trans. by Phillip Mornay (1607)
- The workes of Lucius Annæus Seneca, trans. by Thomas Lodge (1614)
- A New Translation of the Morals of Seneca, trans. by George Bennet (1745)
- Minor dialogues: together with the dialogue on clemency, trans. by Aubrey Stewart (1889)
Works about Seneca
- Encyclopedia articles
- "Seneca, L. Annæus," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (21) (1886)
- “Seneca, L. Annaeus”, by George Long in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870.
- "Seneca, L. Annæus," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
- "Seneca," by Robert Drew Hicks in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911).
About his works
- The Influence of Seneca on Elizabethan Tragedy (1893) 1907 reprint: (external scan)
Works by this author published before January 1, 1927 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.
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