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This new and important introduction to Seneca provides a systematic and concise presentation of this author's philosophical work and his tragedies.
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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.
Contents
Contents
Preface
Part One - Life and Legacy
Imago suae vitae: Seneca's Life and Career
Thomas Habinek
TheWorks of Seneca the Younger and Their Dates
C.W. Marshall
Transmission
Rolando Ferri
Seneca and Senecae: Images of Seneca from Antiquity to Present
Seneca the Philosopher
Matthias Laarmann
Seneca the Dramatist
Werner Schubert
Part Two - Philosophy
Context: Seneca's Philosophical Predecessors and Contemporaries
John Sellars
Works
De providentia
R. Scott Smith
De constantia sapientis
R. Scott Smith
De ira
Maria Monteleone
Consolatio ad Marciam
Jochen Sauer
De vita beata
Fritz-Heiner Mutschler
De otio
R. Scott Smith
De tranquillitate animi
Fritz-Heiner Mutschler
De brevitate vitae
R. Scott Smith
Consolatio ad Polybium
Jochen Sauer
Consolatio ad Helviam
Jochen Sauer
De clementia
Ermanno Malaspina
Naturales quaestiones
Gareth D. Williams
Epistulae morales
Aldo Setaioli
De beneficiis
Mario Lentano
Lost and FragmentaryWorks
Anna Maria Ferrero
Epistulae Senecae ad Paulum et Pauli ad Senecam
Alfons Fürst
Topics
Ontology and Epistemology
Mireille Armisen-Marchetti
Ethics I: Philosophy as Therapy, Self-Transformation, and "Lebensform"
Aldo Setaioli
Ethics II: Action and Emotion
Margaret R. Graver
Ethics III: Free Will and Autonomy
Aldo Setaioli
Ethics IV: Wisdom and Virtue
Jula Wildberger
Ethics V: Death and Time
Catharine Edwards
Physics I: Body and Soul
R. Scott Smith
Physics II: Cosmology and Natural Philosophy
Bardo Maria Gauly
Physics III: Theology
Aldo Setaioli
Part Three - Tragedy
Context
Wolf-Lüder Liebermann
Works
Hercules furens
Margarethe Billerbeck
Troas
Wilfried Stroh
Phoenissae
Marica Frank
Medea
Wolf-Lüder Liebermann
Phaedra
Roland Mayer
Oedipus
Karlheinz Töchterle
Agamemnon
Christoph Kugelmeier
Thyestes
Chiara Torre
DubiousWorks
Hercules Oetaeus
C.A.J. Littlewood
Octavia
Rolando Ferri
Topics
Space and Time in Senecan Drama
Ernst A. Schmidt
Vision, Sound, and Silence in the "Drama of theWord"
Andreas Heil
The Chorus: Seneca as Lyric Poet
Giancarlo Mazzoli
The Rhetoric of Rationality and Irrationality
Gottfried Mader
Characters
G.W.M. Harrison
Themes
G.W.M. Harrison
Greek and Roman Elements in Senecan Tragedy
Sander M. Goldberg
Philosophical Tragedy?
François-Régis Chaumartin
Part Four - Apocolocyntosis
Apocolocyntosis
Renata Roncali
Part Five - Other Works
Epigrams
Joachim Dingel
De vita patris
Michael Winterbottom
Part Six - Synthesis
Seneca's Language and Style
Michael von Albrecht
Systematic Connections between Seneca's PhilosophicalWorks and Tragedies
Susanna E. Fischer
List of Journal Abbreviations
Bibliography
Andrea Balbo and Ermanno Malaspina
Editions of Seneca'sWorks (Since Haase's Opera Omnia)
Contributors
General Index
