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Das Buch wendet sich an Fachleute ebenso wie Studierende und das allgemeine Publikum. Es präsentiert eine ungewöhnliche Vielfalt von Beiträgern verschiedener Generationen, Fachrichtungen und nationaler Wissenskulturen, teilweise zum ersten Mal überhaupt in Englisch. Gemeinsam betonen sie die Einheit von Senecas Oeuvre und seine Originalität als Mittler stoischen Gedankenguts in den literarischen Formen des Prinzipats.
List of contents
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
About the author
Jula Wildberger, The American University of Paris, France; Marcia L. Colish, Yale University, New Haven, USA.
