Three descriptions -- Neronian exits : writing death into history -- The man of many genres in his death -- Consolations on the departure of the consoler -- A closing scene in the theaters of ethics, tragedy, and history -- End of a series : death in epistolary time -- Tracing the tradition -- Forced suicide and the bodily paths to libertas -- Passing into memory : Seneca's Imago and its reproduction -- Places suburban and serious : the ruins of Seneca and Scipio.
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D
Nero, Emperor of Rome, 37-68 -- Friends and associates