Seneca Philosophus / / ed. by Jula Wildberger, Marcia L. Colish.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Berno, Francesca Romana,; Cermatori, Linda,; Colish, Marcia L.,; Courtil, Jean-Christophe,; De Pietro, Matheus,; Dinter, Martin T.,; Gazzarri, Tommaso,; Gloyn, Elizabeth,; Graver, Margaret R.,; Hadot, Ilsetraut,; Jones, Madeleine,; Kaufman, David H.,; Müller, Jörn,; Orlando, Antonello,; Pierini, Rita Degl’Innocenti,; Wildberger, Jula,; Williams, Gareth D.,
• HerausgeberIn: Colish, Marcia L.,; Wildberger, Jula,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 27
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (512 p.)

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,...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Getting to Goodness: Reflections on Chapter 10 of Brad Inwood, Reading Seneca
• Seneca on Prolēpsis: Greek Sources and Cicero’s Influence
• Did Seneca Understand Medea? A Contribution to the Stoic Account of Akrasia
• Seneca on Acting against Conscience
• Seneca on the Analysis and Therapy of Occurrent Emotions
• Double Vision and Cross-Reading in Seneca’s Epistulae Morales and Naturales Quaestiones
• Freedom in Seneca: Some Reflections on the Relationship between Philosophy and Politics, Public and Private Life
• Torture in Seneca’s Philosophical Works: Between Justification and Condemnation
• Gender–Based Differential Morbidity and Moral Teaching in Seneca’s Epistulae morales
• My Family Tree Goes Back to the Romans: Seneca’s Approach to the Family in the Epistulae Morales
• Honeybee Reading and Self-Scripting: Epistulae Morales 84
• The Philosopher as Craftsman: A Topos between Moral Teaching and Literary Production
• Sententiae in Seneca
• Having the Right to Philosophize: A New Reading of Seneca, De Vita Beata 1.1–6.2
• In Praise of Tubero’s Pottery: A Note on Seneca, Ep. 95.72–73 and 98.13
• Seneca’s Letters to Lucilius: Hypocrisy as a Way of Life
• 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