Robert A. Kaster 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.
This is the first new critical edition of Seneca's De Beneficiis in almost 100 years. Robert A. Kaster provides a fresh examination of the extant archetype and extensive critical notes.