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Book SynopsisAddressing classicists, philosophers, students, and general readers alike, this volume emphasizes the unity of Seneca's work and his originality as a translator of Stoic ideas in the literary forms of imperial Rome. It features a vitalizing diversity of contributors from different generations, disciplines, and research cultures. Several prominent Seneca scholars publishing in other languages are for the first time made accessible to anglophone readers.
Table of ContentsIntroduction Ilsetraut Hadot Getting to Goodness: Reflections on Chapter 10 of Brad Inwood, Reading Seneca Antonello Orlando Seneca on Prolēpsis: Greek Sources and Cicero’s Influence Jörn Müller Did Seneca Understand Medea? A Contribution to the Stoic Account of Akrasia Marcia L. Colish Seneca on Acting against Conscience David H. Kaufman Seneca on the Analysis and Therapy of Occurrent Emotions Gareth D. Williams Double Vision and Cross-Reading in Seneca’s Epistulae Morales and Naturales Quaestiones Rita Degl’Innocenti Pierini Freedom in Seneca: Some Reflections on the Relationship between Philosophy and Politics, Public and Private Life Jean-Christophe Courtil Torture in Seneca’s Philosophical Works: Between Justification and Condemnation Tommaso Gazzarri Gender-Based Differential Morbidity and Moral Teaching in Seneca’s Epistulae morales Elizabeth Gloyn My Family Tree Goes Back to the Romans: Seneca’s Approach to the Family in the Epistulae Morales Margaret R. Graver Honeybee Reading and Self-Scripting: Epistulae Morales 84 Linda Cermatori The Philosopher as Craftsman: A Topos between Moral Teaching and Literary Production Martin T. Dinter Sententiae in Seneca Matheus De Pietro Having the Right to Philosophize: A New Reading of Seneca, De Vita Beata 1.1–6.2 Francesca Romana Berno In Praise of Tubero’s Pottery: A Note on Seneca, Ep. 95.72–73 and 98.133 Madeleine Jones Seneca’s Letters to Lucilius: Hypocrisy as a Way of Life Jula Wildberger The Epicurus Trope and the Construction of a “Letter Writer” in Seneca’s Epistulae Morales Abbreviations Index of Passages Cited Index of Modern Authors General Index
