About the lecture

In this module, we think about Seneca's life, career and literary output, focusing in particular on his political career, his relationship with the imperial family, and his often chequered reputation.

About the lecturer

Professor Catharine Edwards is Professor of Classics and Ancient History at Birkbeck, University of London. Her work focuses on the cultural history of the Roman world, especially Rome in the early principate, Seneca and the Younger and his Letters, and responses to the city of Rome in antiquity and later periods. Her recent publications include Suetonious: Lives of the Caesars (Oxford World's Classics, 2000), (as co-editor with Greg Woolf) Rome the Cosmopolis (CUP, 2002), and Death in Ancient Rome (Yale, 2007).