Seneca by Christopher Star PAPERBACK 9781848858909

Seneca\nby Christopher Star\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Christopher Star\nTitle: Seneca\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary studies: plays and playwrights\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\nPublication year: 2016\nISBN-13: 9781848858909\nISBN-10: 1848858906\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nAfter centuries of neglect there is renewed interest in the life and works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca (or Seneca the Younger, c 4 BCE-65 CE). At one time an advisor at court to Nero, Seneca and his political career came to ruin when he was implicated in a later plot to kill the capricious and matricidal emperor, and compelled to commit suicide. Discredited through collusion, or at least association, with a notorious and tyrannical regime, Seneca's ideas were for a time also co.