Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Gutenberg Index)

Seneca wrote with the urgency of a man who knew life is short. A Roman philosopher, dramatist, and advisor to Nero, he packed his essays, tragedies, and letters with hard-won wisdom about anger, death, friendship, and how to live with dignity. This index gathers his complete Project Gutenberg corpus: the bracing moral treatises (On Anger, On Mercy, On Benefits), the intimate Letters to Lucilius, and the tragedies that would shape European drama for centuries. His Stoicism isn't abstract. He was practical, direct, sometimes ruthless in his honesty. He believed philosophy should change how you live, not just what you think. The tragedies here, Medea, Phaedra, Oedipus, are violent, psychological explorations of power and passion. Reading Seneca means encountering a mind that refused to comfort himself with easy answers. His work persists because his questions remain urgent: How should we face suffering? What do we owe each other? How do we die well?