Brill's companion to Seneca, philosopher and dramatist / / edited by Gregor Damschen, Andreas Heil ; with the assistance of Mario Waida.

• Superior document: [Brill's companions in classical studies],
• TeilnehmendeR: Damschen, Gregor.; Heil, Andreas, 1969-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2014.
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Studies.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (895 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Front Matter /; Imago suae vitae: Seneca’s Life and Career /; The Works of Seneca the Younger and Their Dates /; Transmission /; Seneca the Philosopher /; Seneca the Dramatist /; Context: Seneca’s Philosophical Predecessors and Contemporaries /; De providentia /; De constantia sapientis /; De ira /; Consolatio ad Marciam /; De vita beata /; De otio /; De tranquillitate animi /; De brevitate vitae /; Consolatio ad Polybium /; Consolatio ad Helviam /; De clementia /; Naturales quaestiones /; Epistulae morales /; De beneficiis /; Lost and Fragmentary Works /; Epistulae Senecae ad Paulum et Pauli ad Senecam /; Ontology and Epistemology /; Ethics I: Philosophy as Therapy, Self-Transformation, and “Lebensform” /; Ethics II: Action and Emotion /; Ethics III: Free Will and Autonomy /; Ethics IV: Wisdom and Virtue /; Ethics V: Death and Time /; Physics I: Body and Soul /; Physics II: Cosmology and Natural Philosophy /; Physics III: Theology /; Context /; Hercules furens /; Troas /; Phoenissae /; Medea /; Phaedra /; Oedipus /; Agamemnon /; Thyestes /; Hercules Oetaeus /; Octavia /; Space and Time in Senecan Drama /; Vision, Sound, and Silence in the “Drama of the Word” /; The Chorus: Seneca as Lyric Poet /; The Rhetoric of Rationality and Irrationality /; Characters /; Themes /; Greek and Roman Elements in Senecan Tragedy /; Philosophical Tragedy? /; Apocolocyntosis /; Epigrams /; De vita patris /; Seneca’s Language and Style /; Systematic Connections between Seneca’s Philosophical Works and Tragedies /; List of Journal Abbreviations /; Bibliography /; Editions of Seneca’s Works (Since Haase’s Opera Omnia) /; Contributors /; General Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 771-860) and index.
• ISBN: 9004217088
• ISSN: 1872-3357
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Gregor Damschen, Andreas Heil ; with the assistance of Mario Waida.

This new and important introduction to Seneca provides a systematic and concise presentation of this author’s philosophical works and his tragedies. It provides handbook style surveys of each genuine or attributed work, giving dates and brief descriptions, and taking into account the most important philosophical and philological issues. In addition, they provide accounts of the major steps in the history of their later influence. The cultural background of the texts and the most important problem areas within the philosophic and tragic corpus of Seneca are dealt with in separate essays.