Seneca entire

Every surviving work of Lucius Annaeus Seneca — the ten tragedies, the satirical Apocolocyntosis, and the philosophy (the Dialogues, the Letters to Lucilius, On Benefits, and the Natural Questions) — translated in a single voice, with the Latin facing the text. A glossary of every name and a cross-reference index sit alongside.

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What makes this different

A few things, taken together, set this edition apart. Click any to expand.

Tragedy and philosophy, in one voice.

The blood-soaked tragedies and the patient Stoic prose by one translator under a single style guide — so the same restless mind shows in both, not two different hands.

Arranged as written.

Read across the genres in the order Seneca wrote them and a single career emerges — the playwright, the satirist, and the philosopher-advisor to Nero, in real time.

A scholarly apparatus alongside.

A glossary of every name, place and office, the Latin facing the text, the Greek quotations catalogued and glossed, and cross-references — what plain digital editions omit.

From the Latin.

Read from Seneca's Latin directly, not adapted from a prior English version. The text comes from open scholarly sources.

The corpus

Tragedies
10
of 10 surviving
Satire
1
of 1 surviving
Philosophy
14
of 14 surviving

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