The volume contains a comprehensive survey of each genuine or attributed work of Seneca in the style of concise handbook articles ("Works"). The cultural background ("Context") and the most important problem areas within the philosophic and tragic...
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The volume contains a comprehensive survey of each genuine or attributed work of Seneca in the style of concise handbook articles ("Works"). The cultural background ("Context") and the most important problem areas within the philosophic and tragic corpus of Seneca are dealt with in fuller presentations ("Topics")
Contents; Preface; PART ONE. LIFE AND LEGACY; Imago suae vitae: Seneca's Life and Career; The Works of Seneca the Younger and Their Dates; Transmission; PART ONE. LIFE AND LEGACY; Seneca the Philosopher; Seneca the Dramatist; PART TWO. PHILOSOPHY; Context: Seneca's Philosophical Predecessors and Contemporaries; PART TWO. PHILOSOPHY; 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 WorksEpistulae Senecae ad Paulum et Pauli ad Senecam; PART TWO. PHILOSOPHY; 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; PART THREE. TRAGEDY; Context; PART THREE. TRAGEDY; Hercules furens; Troas; Phoenissae; Medea; Phaedra; Oedipus; Agamemnon; Thyestes; PART THREE. TRAGEDY; Hercules Oetaeus; Octavia
PART THREE. TRAGEDYSpace 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?; PART FOUR. APOCOLOCYNTOSIS; Apocolocyntosis; PART FIVE. OTHER WORKS; Epigrams; De vita patris; PART SIX. SYNTHESIS; 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)
