Between Heathenism and Christianity - College of Stoic Philosophers

Seneca: His Character and Environment
DC Olio, (On Leisure).
De Tranquillitate Animi, (On Peace of Mind).
De Brevitate Vitae, (On the Shortness of Life).
De Beneficiis, (On Beneficence).
De dementia, (On Clemency).
Ad Marciam de Consolatione, (A Letter of Condolence to Marcia).
Ad Polybium de Consolatione, (A Letter of Condolence to Polybius).
Ad Helviain matron de Consolatione.
his mother Helvia).
Apocolocynthosis, (Pumpkinfication.
(A Letter of Condolence to
be translated by
as it
may a parody on Deification; or we may call it Pumpkinosis to
correspond with Apotheosis).
Epistolae Morales ad Luciliiim, (Letters to Lucilius on the Con
duct of Life).
Quaestiones Naturales, (Questions relating to Physical Phenom
ena). This is the only work of the kind belonging to Latin
literature. During the Middle Ages
it was much used as a
text*book.
In the Charpentier^Lemaistre edition the letters to
Lucilius fill the first volume and a little more than
half of the second. The first Book on Beneficence is
in the third volume; the remainder with the Problems
in Physics
treatises occupy
fill the fourth and last. The smaller
the rest of the four volumes. A
number of Tragedies with Greek titles are also attrib
uted to our Seneca, probably with justice.