Accused of conspiring against the emperor Nero, Seneca was commanded to commit suicide, which he did in characteristic Stoic manner. Included in this volume are his dialogues ON THE SHORTNESS OF LIFE and ON TRANQUILITY OF MIND; also extracts from NATURAL QUESTIONS and the CONSOLATION TO HELVIA. Seneca's prose works were admired by the major literary figures of Elizabethan England A selection of dialogues and letters from one of the most influential masters of Latin prose. This text includes Consolation to Helvia written to Seneca's mother to soothe the pain of separation, and the dialogues of On the Shortness of Life, and On Tranquility of Mind.
