Studies on the Text of Seneca's De beneficiis

Robert A. Kaster A is is Emeritus Professor of Classics and Emeritus Kennedy Foundation Professor of Latin at Princeton University. He began his university teaching career at the University of Chicago, where he was the Avalon Foundation Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities, before joining the Princeton faculty in 1997. His research focuses on Roman rhetoric, the history of ancient education, Roman ethics, and textual criticism.

Kaster's work represents the apex of nearly a century of philological efforts, and in it all the best contributions are gauged and further elaborated, resulting in a series of great improvements to Seneca's text. Even before his eagerly awaited OCT edition comes out, Kaster's impressive expertise has provided the philological community with a new reference point for the study of De Beneficiis, a research tool from which everyone will have a lot to learn.

• Introduction: The Text's Documentary Basis 1: Book One 2: Book Two 3: Book Three 4: Book Four 5: Book Five 6: Book Six 7: Book Seven Appendix 1: N and Q Appendix 2: Orthographica Appendix 3: A Supplement to Mazzoli 1982