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1	Satyricon more books like this by Petronius Arbiter The most celebrated prose work to have survived from the ancient world, THE SATYRICON recounts the sleazy progress of a pair of literate scholars as they wander through the cities of the southern Mediterranean in the age of Nero, encountering type-figures whom the author wishes to satirize. P.G. Walsh captures the spirit of the original in this ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium more books like this by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Robin Campbell (Translator) see all copies from $5.28! new only from $7.74! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Four Tragedies and Octavia more books like this by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, E F Watling (Translator) see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.04! \| SVS
4	The Satyricon; The Apocolocyntosis of the Divine Claudius more books like this by Petronius Arbiter, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Petronius see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.99! \| SVS
5	On the Shortness of Life more books like this by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, C D N Costa (Translator) see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.79! \| SVS
6	The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters of Seneca. more books like this by Professor Moses Hadas, Lucius Annaeus Seneca see all copies from $5.90! new only from $10.21! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Seneca, I, Moral Essays: de Providentia. de Constantia. de IRA. de Clementia more books like this by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, John W Basore (Translator) Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BCE, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunt's care. He became famous in rhetoric, philosophy, money-making, and imperial service. After some disgrace during Claudius' reign he became tutor and then, in 54 CE, advising minister to Nero, some ... see all copies from $9.95! new only from $25.24! \| SVS
8	Medea more books like this by Seneca This edition of the Medea is the first complete volume of any play by Seneca to include an introduction, Latin text, apparatus criticus, and commentary. see all copies from $3.95! new only from $8.03!
9	Dialogues and Letters more books like this by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, C D N Costa (Translator) 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 ... see all copies from $6.52! new only from $9.23! \| SVS
10	Seneca, the Tragedies more books like this by Mr. David R Slavitt (Translator), Professor Palmer Bovie (Editor), Lucius Annaeus Seneca In these lively renditions David Slavitt calls attention to the extraordinary work of the great Latin poet Seneca, and makes them appealing to modern readers. Seneca's honest artistry confronts the cruelty and irrationality of his world--the Rome of Caligula, Claudius and Nero. The surprise is that Seneca's world is so like our own. This volume ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.45! \| signed copies \| first editions
11	The complete Roman drama; all the extant comedies of Plautus and Terence, and the tragedies of Seneca, in a variety of translations more books like this by George Eckel Duckworth (Editor), Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Titus Maccius Plautus, Terence see all copies from $10.00! first editions
12 view cover	Seneca: Moral and Political Essays more books like this by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, John M Cooper (Editor), J F Procope (Editor) New translations of significant political writings of Seneca, the most important Stoic philosopher. see all copies from $15.80! new only from $15.80! \| SVS
13 view cover	Seneca: The Tragedies more books like this by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Mr. David R Slavitt (Translator) Are there no limits to human cruelty? Is there any divine justice? Do the gods even matter if they do not occupy themselves with rewarding virtue and punishing wickedness? Seneca's plays might be dismissed as bombastic and extravagant answers to such questions--if so much of human history were not "Senecan" in its absurdity, melodrama, and ... see all copies from $7.47! new only from $20.71! \| first editions
14 view cover	Phaedra more books like this by Lucius Annaeus Seneca Concentrates on the dramatic qualities of Phaedra and examines the Greek and Roman background to the play. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.09!
15	Great Ideas: on the Shortness of Life by Seneca see all copies from $4.25! new only from $13.04!
16 view cover	Seneca, VIII, Tragedies I: Hercules. Trojan Women. Phoenician Women. Medea. Phaedra more books like this by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, John G Fitch (Translator) Seneca is a figure of first importance in both Roman politics and literature: a leading adviser to Nero who attempted to restrain the emperor's megalomania; a prolific moral philosopher; and the author of verse tragedies that strongly influenced Shakespeare and other Renaissance dramatists. Here is the first of a new two-volume edition of Seneca's ... see all copies from $19.95! new only from $24.00! \| first editions \| SVS
17	Environmental economics more books like this by Joseph J Seneca see all copies from $1.99! new only from $51.00! \| first editions
18 view cover	America's Demographic Tapestry: Baseline for the New Millennium more books like this by James W Hughes (Editor), Joseph J Seneca (Editor) see all copies from $1.99! new only from $21.00!
19	Trojan Women more books like this by Frederick M Ahl (Photographer), Lucius Annaeus Seneca see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.69!
20 view cover	The Voyage of the Argo: The Argonautica of Gaius Valerius Flaccus more books like this by Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Seneca (Editor), Mr. David R Slavitt (Translator) The story of Jason and the Argonauts and their quest for the Golden Fleece is one of the oldest and most familiar tales in classical literature. Apollonius of Rhodes wrote the best-known version, in Greek, in the third century B.C.E. The Latin poet Gaius Valerius Flaccus began his own interpretation of the story in the first century of the ... see all copies from $5.76! new only from $5.98! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Sacred Exchange more books like this by Lisabet Sarai (Editor), Seneca F Mayfair Much has been written about the physical aspects of dominance and submission, including the use of such paraphernalia as whips and bonds, but the literature does not fully explain the compelling attraction many have to S/M experiences. Through stories of ritual, communion, telepathy, devotion, dreams, commitment, and personal transformation, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.19! \| first editions \| SVS
22	The Satyricon and the Apocolocyntosis of the Divine Claudius by Petronius Arbiter, Petronius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca see all copies from $1.99! new only from $71.88!
23 view cover	Two Faces of Oedipus: Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus and Seneca's Oedipus more books like this by Sophocles, Frederick Ahl (Translator) see all copies from $10.94! new only from $16.95! \| SVS
24 view cover	Seneca: de Otio; de Brevitate Vitae more books like this by Seneca, Dr. Gareth Williams, MD (Editor), P E Easterling (Editor) Introduces students to the complex artistic method and provocative message of Senecan philosophy. see all copies from $26.74! new only from $26.74! \| SVS
25 view cover	Satyricon. Apocolocyntosis more books like this by Petronius Arbiter, Petronius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca Petronius (C. or T. Petronius Arbiter), who is reasonably identified with the author of this famous satyric and satiric novel, was a man of pleasure and of good literary taste who flourished in the times of Claudius (41-54 CE) and Nero (54-68). As Tacitus describes him, he used to sleep by day, and attend to official duties or to his amusements by ... see all copies from $20.00! new only from $21.45! \| SVS

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