Abstract
Abstract ‘Without the testimony of Tacitus, Seneca the statesman could hardly exist.’ Syme’s tribute to the historian contains a remarkable fact about the statesman: he did not discuss his political career or his policies, though he wrote voluminously and in the first person. Only the Apocolocyntosis and De Clementia appear to betray directly his preoccupations as amicus principis. Are the rest of his works simply irrelevant to his political career? This problem is part of a wider one, for it is not merely Seneca the statesman that his works fail to reveal — it is Seneca the man. The surviving prose works, though addressed to contemporaries and concerned with practical moral problems, tell us little about Seneca’s external life or about the people and events that formed its setting.
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