Séneca

This book tries to bring the figure of Seneca, born in Roman Cordoba more than two thousand years ago, closer to the reader of our time, making known the vicissitudes of his family and public life, and at the same time unraveling the sinuosities of his work as a philosopher. and poet. The first part places Seneca's life in a new light that makes her attractive and close, from a demystifying perspective that cleanses her ghostly and idealized image of added adhesions, avoiding all fantasy and carrying out an elaborate literary, historical and philosophical inquiry on the data provided by Seneca's sources and works. The second part examines his idea and practice of writing, as well as his thinking in the context of ancient philosophy and stoicism, tragedies as symptoms of the deep and inherent pain of man, and the image of Seneca throughout the ages . Finally, a bouquet of sentences ordered by subject is offered, showing the genius of an author to whom we owe dozens of memorable aphorisms.