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Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero
by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, James Romm
Interesting times always include interesting people. Seneca clearly is one of those interesting people. However, both in the past and ever since, he remains an enigma, and so is his relationship with Nero. This volume seems to find Tacitus' account the most reasonable, even though no conclusion is drawn, then or now. Lots of history, biography episodes of many prominent people of the times. The oddest example, Octavia, who lived through her father killing her mother, her stepmother killing her father, her husband killing her brother, and in the end, her husband killing herself. Of course all of these murders were related through incestuous interbreeding and marriages, mostly illegal even at the time. This incest and murder appears to be the problem of hereditary succession, regardless of the title of the leader or the population being governed, if even it was governing.