Addressing 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.
Introduction
Ilsetraut Hadot
Getting to Goodness: Reflections on Chapter 10 of Brad
Inwood, Reading Seneca
Antonello Orlando
Seneca on Prol psis: 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
J. Wildberger, The American University of Paris; M. L. Colish, Yale University, New Haven.
