Moral Essays, Volume II Addictions A beautiful slip-cased gift edition

A beautiful slip-cased gift edition of this touching and wise classic children's book

Why Rome Fell includes coverage of the transition from the ancient to the medieval world

The Birth of Humankind

This is the extraordinary account of treacherous seas

And yet it is not the thing she'd imagined

Moral Essays, Volume II Addictions A beautiful slip-cased gift editionSeneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BCE, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunt's care. He became famous in rhetoric, philosophy, money making, and imperial service. After some disgrace during Claudius' reign he became tutor and then, in 54 CE, advising minister to Nero, some of whose worst misdeeds he did not prevent. Involved (innocently?) in a conspiracy, he killed himself by