Works Seneca the Younger

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1 works

1.1 seneca s tragedies
1.2 essays , letters

1.2.1 dialogues
1.2.2 other essays
1.2.3 letters
1.2.4 other
1.2.5 spurious


1.3 pseudo-seneca





works

works attributed seneca include dozen philosophical essays, 1 hundred , twenty-four letters dealing moral issues, 9 tragedies, , satire, attribution of disputed. authorship of hercules on oeta has been questioned.


seneca s tragedies

fabulae crepidatae (tragedies greek subjects):



hercules or hercules furens (the madness of hercules)
troades (the trojan women)
phoenissae (the phoenician women)
medea
phaedra
oedipus
agamemnon
thyestes
hercules oetaeus (hercules on oeta): considered not written seneca. first rejected heinsius.

fabula praetexta (tragedy in roman setting):



octavia: not written seneca; play closely resembles seneca s plays in style, written short time after seneca s death (perhaps between 70-80 a.d.), keen knowledge of seneca s plays , philosophical works. first rejected lipsius.

essays , letters
dialogues

traditionally given in following order:



other essays

(56) de clementia (on clemency) – written nero on need clemency virtue in emperor.
(63) de beneficiis (on benefits) [seven books]

letters

(64) epistulae morales ad lucilium – collection of 124 letters dealing moral issues written lucilius junior.

other

(54) apocolocyntosis divi claudii (the gourdification of divine claudius), satirical work.
(63) naturales quaestiones [seven books] insight ancient theories of cosmology, meteorology, , similar subjects.

spurious

(58–62/370?) cujus etiam ad paulum apostolum leguntur epistolae: these letters, allegedly between seneca , st paul, revered authorities, scholars doubt authenticity.

pseudo-seneca

pseudo-seneca name used uncertain authors of various antique , medieval texts such de remediis fortuitorum, purport roman author. @ least of these seem preserve , adapt genuine senecan content, example saint martin of braga s (d. c. 580) formula vitae honestae, or de differentiis quatuor virtutumvitae honestae ( rules honest life , or on 4 cardinal virtues ). mss. preserve martin s preface, makes clear adaption, in later copies omitted, , work became thought seneca s work.








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