Author

Books by Seneca

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 BC – 65 AD) was a Roman philosopher, statesman, and playwright. He was tutor and then chief advisor to Emperor Nero, one of the most influential positions in the Roman Empire, and accumulated enormous wealth before Nero turned against him and ordered his death by suicide in 65 AD. His major works include the Epistulae Morales (Letters from a Stoic), the essay On the Shortness of Life, and a series of tragedies. He was the leading Stoic writer of his era and remains among the most widely read ancient philosophers in modern translation.