Letters from a Stoic

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c.4BC – AD65) was born in Cordoba, Spain, where he was brought up studying the traditional virtues of republican Roman life. He became a teacher of rhetoric but attracted attention for his incisive style of writing.

Ali and Robin Campbell were born and brought up in 1960's Birmingham and went on to lead one of pop/reggae music legends UB40 with record sales in excess of £50 million.

Liz Gloyn is a Reader in Latin Language and Literature in the Department of Classics at Royal Holloway, University of London. She completed her BA and MPhil in Classics at Newnham College, University of Cambridge, and then earned a second MPhil and her PhD at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in the US. She worked at the University of Birmingham before joining Royal Holloway, where her research focuses on the intersections between Latin literature, ancient philosophy and gender studies. She has a strong specialism in classical reception, and is co-director of the Centre for the Reception of Greece and Rome. She is the author of The Ethics of the Family in Seneca (2017) and Tracking Classical Monsters in Popular Culture (2019), as well as a broad range of chapters and articles.