Seneca: The Basics

Christopher V. Trinacty is Professor of Classics at Oberlin College (USA). He is the author of Senecan Tragedy and the Reception of Augustan Poetry (2014) and numerous articles about Seneca.

• 1. Seneca’s Life and Times; 2. Orator, Poet, Philosopher; 3. Seneca’s Politics; 4. Tragedy, Trauma, and Terror; 5. Ethical Elements; 6. The Natural World: Seneca’s Natural Questions; 7. Later Seneca(s).

"In this well-written and very accessible book, Christopher Trinacty offers an impressive breadth of coverage of Seneca’s entire corpus, both prose and verse, and a valuable overview of Seneca’s philosophical ideas. But the book also bristles with sharp insights, the writing is lively and engaging, and – perhaps above all – Trinacty demonstrates very effectively just why Seneca remains powerfully relevant in our modern times." - Gareth Williams, Anthon, Professor of Latin Language and Literature, Columbia University