Séneca

Examining the work of Lucius Anneo Seneca is equivalent to following step by step the moral history of the first years of Rome as an empire. His thought gave a new life to the ideas of the Greek philosophers, of which he was one of the most outstanding inheritors. However, in Seneca what had remained on an abstract and theoretical level becomes vital. Both his life and his texts show an awareness, that of the Romans, embarked on the conquest of the world. Testimony of a decisive period in history, Seneca is, therefore, a key figure in understanding imperial culture and philosophy, which Pierre Grimal manages to portray as practically no one has done.