Dying Every Day : Seneca at the Court of Nero

from jerry-book

He lived 2,000 years ago. Sources about his life were scant. He was a philosopher writer and tutor and counselor of Emperor Nero. Was it his fault that Nero was a terrible Emperor? The author provides cogent answers to this and other questions. Nero's reign started well with an address to the Sen...

from gayla.bassham

This is an interesting and well-written book, but it can be somewhat tough going if your Roman history is rusty. I learned a lot about Nero over the last couple of days, but I probably would have gotten more out of it if I remembered more of my high school Western Civ class.It did make me want to...

from Wattsian

I thought this was a tremendously exciting, brisk read full of drama, tragedy and nuance. Romm rightly seldom establishes any fact as absolutely true, and just about everything, millennia after events, is open for debate. The two irreconcilable sides of the Stoic Seneca are marvelously teased out...

from Wattsian

I thought this was a tremendously exciting, brisk read full of drama, tragedy and nuance. Romm rightly seldom establishes any fact as absolutely true, and just about everything, millennia after events, is open for debate. The two irreconcilable sides of the Stoic Seneca are marvelously teased out...