Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman and dramatist (c. 4 BCE–65 CE)

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Public and private bathing facilities in ancient Rome: fourteen figures, including a public bath complex, Seneca standing in a small ornamental bath, a father and his children bathing together, and a selection of bathing implements and strigils. Lithograph by Massias and Durin, 1888.

Seneca preparing his own death: he begs his wife to temper her grief. Etching by J.F.P. Peyron, ca. 1773.

Seneca preparing his own death in a bath. Etching by F. Perrier.

Philosophers: twenty portraits of ancient thinkers. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.

After the suicide of Seneca the Younger, the Emperor Nero orders the arrest of the suicide of Seneca's wife Pompeia Paulina. Oil painting by an Italian painter, ca. 1750.

Philosophia medica e medicina rhetorica in Seneca : la scuola pneumatica, l'ira, la melancolia / Giuseppe Bocchi.

Seneca preparing his own death in his bath. Engraving by C. Galle, 1615, after P.P. Rubens.

Six excellent treatises of life and death / collected (and published in French) by Philip Mornay, sieur du Plessis ; and now (first) translated into English.

Regulae universales curationis morborum, tercentum quadragintaquinque aphorismis / per D. Arnoldum Catalanum ... conscriptae ... commentariis utilissimis illustratae. Et evacuandi ratio, per Antonium Gazionem ... G. Pictorii scholiis diligenter explicata. Praeterea rerum fortuito evenientium consolationes quatuordecim ... quibus adnexa sunt L. Annaei Senecae Fortuitorum praesentissima remedia ... accedunt etiam Epicyliciarum quaestionum ... libri decem, ex doctorum penario ... in unum congesti, et jam recens in lucem editi.

Naturales quaestiones / L. Annaei Senecae ; texto revisado y traducido por Carmen Codoñer Merino.

Epistolae. Opera philosophica / [Lucius Annaeus Seneca].

Ludus Heliconius, sive carmina miscellanea / quae variis in locis cecinit Emanuel Swedberg (Swedenborg).

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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.

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Six excellent treatises of life and death / collected (and published in French) by Philip Mornay, sieur du Plessis ; and now (first) translated into English.

Naturales quaestiones / L. Annaei Senecae ; texto revisado y traducido por Carmen Codoñer Merino.

Epistolae. Opera philosophica / [Lucius Annaeus Seneca].

Ludus Heliconius, sive carmina miscellanea / quae variis in locis cecinit Emanuel Swedberg (Swedenborg).