As a writer, Seneca is known for his philosophical works, and for his plays, which are all tragedies. His prose works include a dozen essays and one hundred twenty-four letters dealing with moral issues. Seneca's influence on later generations is immenseduring the Renaissance he was "a sage admired and venerated as an oracle of moral, even of Christian edification; a master of literary style and a model for dramatic art."Contents:THE TRAGEDIESTHE MADNESS OF HERCULESTHE TROJAN WOMENTHE PHOENICIAN WOMENPHAEDRATHYESTESHERCULES ON OETAAGAMEMNONOEDIPUSMEDEAOCTAVIATHE EPISTLESTO MARCIA, ON CONSOLATIONTO MY MOTHER HELVIA, ON CONSOLATIONTO POLYBIUS, ON CONSOLATIONTHE MORAL EPISTLESTHE ESSAYSON ANGERON THE SHORTNESS OF LIFETHE PUMPKINIFICATION OF THE DIVINE CLAUDIUSON THE FIRMNESS OF THE WISE PERSONON CLEMENCYON THE HAPPY LIFEON LEISURENATURAL QUESTIONSON BENEFITSON TRANQUILLITY OF MINDON PROVIDENCE

Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC 65 AD), usually known as Seneca, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and, in one work, satirist, from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature.