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.

Autorentext

J. Wildberger, The American University of Paris; M. L. Colish, Yale University, New Haven.

Inhalt

Introduction

Ilsetraut Hadot
Getting to Goodness: Reflections on Chapter 10 of Brad
Inwood, Reading Seneca

Antonello Orlando
Seneca on Prolepsis: 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