Further Essays on Seneca

The Author: Anna Lydia Motto is a Professor of Classics at the University of South Florida in Tampa. She received her Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina, where she held a Fellowship. She has published six books and numerous articles on Seneca the Philosopher. She is the recipient of a number of awards including a Fulbright Grant to the American Academy in Rome and an Ovatio for Outstanding Scholarship from the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.

Contents: Essays dealing with Seneca's views on friendship, on pleasure, on luxury, on the paradox of felicitas , on the paradox of genius and madness, on restlessness and inconstancy, on the profanum vulgus , on the vir ingratus , on cruelty, on vice, on exemplary heroes, on exemplary villains, on satire in the De Brevitate Vitae , on culinary satire, on irony in Seneca's bestowal of thanks to Nero and three essays on Senecan drama.