Seneca: Select Letters (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780862921200)

First published by Macmillan in 1910 and frequently reprinted thereafter, this selection includes the Latin text of Letters 5, 7, 11, 12, 15, 18, 21, 27, 28, 33, 40, 43, 44, 47, 51, 53-57, 63, 76-80, 82, 84, 86-88, 90, 107, 108, 114 and 122. Three introductory chapters trace the history of Latin prose style, comment on Seneca's own language and style, and give an account of Seneca's critics and admirers from ancient times to the twentieth century. The edition includes explanatory English notes on the Latin text.