{"product_id":"seneca-philosophus-9783110349832","title":"Seneca Philosophus","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAddressing 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction   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","brand":"De Gruyter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53516496666967,"sku":"9783110349832","price":103.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/seneca-philosophus-9783110349832","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}