Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca. Illustrated

As a writer, Seneca is known for his philosophical works, and for his plays, which are all tragedies. His prose works include a dozen essays and one hundred twenty-four letters dealing with moral issues. 

Seneca's influence on later generations is immense—during the Renaissance he was "a sage admired and venerated as an oracle of moral, even of Christian edification; a master of literary style and a model for dramatic art."

Contents:

THE TRAGEDIES

THE MADNESS OF HERCULES

THE TROJAN WOMEN

THE PHOENICIAN WOMEN

PHAEDRA

THYESTES

HERCULES ON OETA

AGAMEMNON

OEDIPUS

MEDEA

OCTAVIA

THE EPISTLES

TO MARCIA, ON CONSOLATION

TO MY MOTHER HELVIA, ON CONSOLATION

TO POLYBIUS, ON CONSOLATION

THE MORAL EPISTLES

THE ESSAYS

ON ANGER

ON THE SHORTNESS OF LIFE

THE PUMPKINIFICATION OF THE DIVINE CLAUDIUS

ON THE FIRMNESS OF THE WISE PERSON

ON CLEMENCY

ON THE HAPPY LIFE

ON LEISURE

NATURAL QUESTIONS

ON BENEFITS

ON TRANQUILLITY OF MIND

ON PROVIDENCE



Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC – 65 AD), usually known as Seneca, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and, in one work, satirist, from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature.