Volume I. Moral Essays
De Providentia. De Constantia. De Ira. De Clementia

Seneca's Stoic philosophy is captured in his Moral Essays. On Providence (which tries to answer the question: why, if god is omnipotent, do good people suffer), On Constancy (on Stoic self-sufficiency), On Anger, and On Clemency (addressed to the emperor Nero) are included in the first of this three-volume edition.

Series No. 214 / 470 pages / ISBN 0-674-99236-9
  Volume II. Moral Essays
Moral Essays: De Consolatione ad Marciam. De Vita Beata. De Otio. De Tranquillitate Animi. De Brevitate Vitae. De Consolatione ad Polybium. De Consolatione ad Helviam

Volume II contains On the Good Life (outlining the Stoic program of living according to nature), On Leisure, On Tranquility (in which Seneca suggests a way of life that will bring contentment), On the Brevity of Life (which argues that intellectual pursuits and a proper understanding of time will make full even a short life), and the three Consolations (to Marcia, to Helvia, to Polybius).

Series No. 254 / ISBN 0-674-99280-6
  Volume III. Moral Essays
De Beneficiis

On Benefits (in Volume III) discusses what constitutes a favor, how it should be given and how received, and the nature of gratitude and ingratitude.

Series No. 310 / 540 pages / ISBN 0-674-99343-8
  Volume IV. Epistles
Epistles 1-65

Probably the most attractive of Seneca's works is this collection of 124 Epistles or Letters to Lucilius. Here Seneca writes occasionally about technical problems of philosophy, but more often in a relaxed style about moral and ethical questions, relating them to personal experiences: visits to gladiatorial shows and seaside resorts, the rigors of travel, the loss of friends, and the like. The reader is thus transported to the first century Roman scene while sampling the Stoic philosopher's thoughts about the good life.

Series No. 75 / 484 pages / ISBN 0-674-99084-6
  Volume V. Epistles
Epistles 66-92

Series No. 76 / 486 pages / ISBN 0-674-99085-4
  Volume VI. Epistles
Epistles 93-124

Series No. 77 / 470 pages / ISBN 0-674-99086-2
  Volume VII. Naturales Quaestiones.
Books 1-3

Most of Seneca's Naturales Quaestiones is given over to celestial phenomena. Book 1 discusses "lights" or fires in the atmosphere; 2, lightning and thunder; Book 3 concerns bodies of water. Seneca's method is to survey the theories of major authorities on the subject at hand and his work is therefore a rewarding guide to Greek and Roman thinking about the heavens.

Series No. 450 / 328 pages / ISBN 0-674-99495-7
  Volume VIII. Tragedies
Hercules Furens. Troades. Medea. Hippolytus or Phaedra. Oedipus

Series No. 62 / 586 pages / ISBN 0-674-99069-2
  Volume IX. Tragedies
Agamemnon. Thyestes. Hercules Oetaeus. Phoenissae. Octavia

Series No. 78 / 548 pages / ISBN 0-674-99087-0
  Volume X. Naturales Quaestiones, Books IV-VII
Book 4 discusses hail and snow; 5, winds; 6, earthquakes; and 7, comets.

Series No. 457 / 318 pages / ISBN 0-674-99503-1
  Satyricon. Apocolocyntosis

Petronius's picaresque novel (probably written during Nero's reign) presents in lurid detail the disreputable travels and adventures of Encolpius, a swashbuckling young coward lacking both morals and income. It has been called a kaleidoscope picture of literature, lust, and life. Perhaps best known are the chapters describing Trimalchio's wildly extravagant dinner party with rambunctious entertainment. For the revised edition, Warmington debowdlerized Heseltine's translation and expanded the explanatory notes. This volume also contains Apocolocyntosis, the satire on the death and apotheosis ("pumpkinification") of the emperor Claudius which is attributed to Seneca.

Series No. 15 / 544 pages / ISBN 0-674-99016-1