Neapolis

Reading notes

• Consolation to Marcia §20 Naples

  The Campanian city where Pompey fell gravely ill; Seneca imagines a death there that would have left him 'undoubted chief of the Roman people.'

• Moral Letters to Lucilius §5.49.1 Naples

  Neapolis, the Greek-founded city on the Bay of Naples, a cultured and pleasant retreat much frequented by Romans.

• Moral Letters to Lucilius §7.68.5 Naples

  Neapolis, the Greek city on the bay of Campania, a fashionable retreat for cultivated Romans; here an example of conspicuous seclusion.

• Natural Questions §6.1.2 Naples

  The Greek-founded coastal city (Neapolis), lightly damaged by the quake.