Seneca Philosophus

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

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,...

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Other Authors: Wildberger, Jula, 1962- (Editor), Colish, Marcia L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Latin
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2014.
Series:Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v. 27.
Subjects:
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, > approximately 55 B.C.-approximately 39 A.D. > Congresses.
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, > approximately 55 B.C.-approximately 39 A.D.
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus > Philosophus > -65
PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical.
Philosophie
Conference papers and proceedings
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Getting to Goodness: Reflections on Chapter 10 of Brad Inwood, Reading Seneca / Hadot, Ilsetraut
  • Seneca on Prolēpsis: Greek Sources and Cicero's Influence / Orlando, Antonello
  • Did Seneca Understand Medea? A Contribution to the Stoic Account of Akrasia / Müller, Jörn
  • Seneca on Acting against Conscience / Colish, Marcia L.
  • Seneca on the Analysis and Therapy of Occurrent Emotions / Kaufman, David H.
  • Double Vision and Cross-Reading in Seneca's Epistulae Morales and Naturales Quaestiones / Williams, Gareth D.
  • Freedom in Seneca: Some Reflections on the Relationship between Philosophy and Politics, Public and Private Life / Pierini, Rita Degl'Innocenti
  • Torture in Seneca's Philosophical Works: Between Justification and Condemnation / Courtil, Jean-Christophe
  • Gender-Based Differential Morbidity and Moral Teaching in Seneca's Epistulae morales / Gazzarri, Tommaso
  • My Family Tree Goes Back to the Romans: Seneca's Approach to the Family in the Epistulae Morales / Gloyn, Elizabeth
  • Honeybee Reading and Self-Scripting: Epistulae Morales 84 / Graver, Margaret R.
  • The Philosopher as Craftsman: A Topos between Moral Teaching and Literary Production / Cermatori, Linda
  • Sententiae in Seneca / Dinter, Martin T.
  • Having the Right to Philosophize: A New Reading of Seneca, De Vita Beata 1.1-6.2 / De Pietro, Matheus
  • In Praise of Tubero's Pottery: A Note on Seneca, Ep. 95.72-73 and 98.13 / Berno, Francesca Romana
  • Seneca's Letters to Lucilius: Hypocrisy as a Way of Life / Jones, Madeleine
  • The Epicurus Trope and the Construction of a "Letter Writer" in Seneca's Epistulae Morales / Wildberger, Jula
  • Abbreviations
  • Index of Passages Cited
  • Index of Modern Authors
  • General Index.

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