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( 4 B. C. - A. D. 65 ) Works of Seneca

Tragedies. All the plays listed below are translated in George E. Duckworth, Editor, Complete Roman Drama, Volume II ( Random House, 1942), but see David R. Slavitt and Palmer Bovie, Series Editors, Seneca, The Tragedies Volumes I and II (Johns Hopkins, 1992).

Mad Hercules
The Phoenician Women
Medea
Agamemnon
Hercules on Oeta
Thyestes. This and the following plays are also translated in Seneca, Four Tragedies and Octavia. Translated with an Introduction by E.F. Watling (Penguin, 1966).
Phaedra
Trojan Women
Oedipus
Octavia

Moral Essays. All the essays below are translated in the three Loeb volumes of Seneca's Moral Essays (Harvard, 1928,1932,1935,respectively). The last three are also translated in Seneca, Moral and Political Essays. Edited and translated by John M. Cooper and J.F. Procopé (Cambridge, 1995)
"Providence"
"Constancy"
"The Happy Life"
"Peace of Mind"
"The Brevity of Life"
"Anger"
"Mercy"
"Favors" (or "Benefits").Only the first four books are translated in Cooper and Procopé

Satire
The Apocolocyntosis. Nasty piece about the Emperor Claudius. Translated with introduction and notes by J.P. Sullivan in Petronius, The Satyricon and Seneca, The Apocolocyntosis. Revised Edition. ( Penguin, 1986)

Letters
A hundred and twenty-four Letters to Lucilius. See Letters from a Stoic. Selected and translated with an introduction by Robin Campbell (Penguin, 1969). Some forty-four letters are translated by Campbell.
Three letters of consolation to Marcia, Polybius, and Helvia.

About Seneca
Viully Sorensen, Seneca: The Humanist at the Court of Nero. Chicago, 1984.
Seneca from About.com.
Seneca Biography from Bartleby.com.

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