Seeing Seneca Whole: Perspectives on Philosophy, Poetry and PoliticsKatharina Volk, G. D. Williams This volume contains ten essays by an international group of scholars on various aspects of the work of L. Annaeus Seneca the Younger, the famous (some would say, notorious) Roman playwright, philosopher, and politician of the Claudian and Neronian periods. Approaching Seneca from a number of different angles, the authors endeavor both to illuminate individual aspects of the writer’s enormous output and to discern common themes among the many different genres practiced by Seneca. Given its interdisciplinary approach, the collection is of interest to classicists, historians, and historians of philosophy alike. |
Contents
Seeing Seneca Whole? | 1 |
Seneca Man of Many Genres | 19 |
Seneca on Moral Theory and Moral Improvement | 43 |
Anger Present Injustice and Future Revenge in Senecas De Ira | 57 |
Some Preliminary Remarks | 75 |
Senecas Use of Aeneid 4653 at Epistulae Morales 129 | 103 |
Seneca Epistle 57 in Book VI of EM | 123 |
Paradox and Reversal in Senecas Consolatio ad Helviam Matrem | 147 |
Further Qualifications | 175 |
Two Ways of Looking at an Eclipse | 183 |
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Passages cited | 213 |
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