THE PRINCIPAL WORKS USED OR CONSULTED ON SENECA.
The following are the principal works used or consulted in preparing the matter relating to Seneca:
Oeuvres complètes de Senèque. Par Charpentier et Lemaistre. 4 tomes. Paris, 1885.
Oeuvres complètes de Senèque. Publiées sous la direction de M. Nisard. Paris, 1877.
L. Annaeus Seneca des Philosophen Werke übersetzt von Pauly und Moser. Stuttgard, 1828-32.
Christliche Klänge aus den griechischen und römischen Klassikern. Von R. Schneider. Leipzig, 1877.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca und das Christenthum. Von Michael Baumgarten. Rostock, 1895.
La Religion romaine. Par Gaston Boissier, 2 tomes. Paris. 1892.
History of the Romans under the Empire. By Charles Merivale. 7 vols. New York, 1863-5.
L. Annaei Senecae opera quae supersunt. Ed. Frid. Haase. Voll. I, II, III. Lipsiae, 1871-62-53.
The two Paris editions have the Latin text and the French translation on the same page. Both translations are characteristically French, and consequently very smooth and agreeable to read. But they preserve few of the salient features of the original, and render the thoughts rather than the style of Seneca. To the translation is accorded the place of honor both in type and position. The German version holds very close to the text and errs, perhaps, somewhat at the other extreme as compared with the French. The work of Baumgarten is thorough and painstaking. It is not endorsing all the author’s views to say that it is the best recent book on Seneca and his times.