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. </p><p>For centuries literary and philosophical circles had to take Seneca seriously even if they could not always respect him and although his reputation has fluctuated there has been a revival of interest in his achievements. Accordingly 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 by the contributors who also discuss Seneca’s philosophical influence and the Senecan heritage in English and neo-Latin literature.</p><p>Each essay contains insightful and sometimes controversial material which is of value to the specialist as well as to students of Latin English or French literature.</p>