The Loeb Classical Library: Epistles, Volume I : Epistles 1–65

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The Loeb Classical Library: Epistles, Volume I : Epistles 1–65Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BC, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunts care. He became famous in rhetoric, philosophy, money making, and imperial service. After some disgrace during Claudius reign he became tutor and then, in AD 54, advising minister to Nero, some of whose worst misdeeds he did not prevent. Involved (innocently?) in a conspiracy, he killed himself by order

as well as examining Demosthenes’ deliberative oratory

Featuring an introduction

the poet Sappho and Telesilla

Agamemnon is dead and his killers rule at Argos

seeking the truth of his origins and achieving immortality

called the Circle

commentary and introduction

while the Apology is his robust rebuttal of the charges against him

and The Sunrise

including the wealthy freedman Trimalchio

Princess of Crete and daughter of the fearsome King Minos

triumphs and disasters