This comprehensive study of Seneca's major philosophical works by a leading authority will be valuable for students and scholars of Greco-Roman philosophy and the literary culture of the Roman Empire, as well as for readers whose main interests are in Stoicism, Epicureanism, and/or ancient analyses of the emotions.
This comprehensive study of Seneca's major philosophical works by a leading authority will be valuable for students and scholars of Greco-Roman philosophy and the literary culture of the Roman Empire, as well as for readers whose main interests are in Stoicism, Epicureanism, and/or ancient analyses of the emotions.
MARGARET GRAVER is the Aaron Lawrence Professor of Classics at Dartmouth College. Her previous publications include Stoicism and Emotion (2007), Cicero on the Emotions: Tusculan Disputations 3 and 4 (2002) and, with A. A. Long, a complete translation of Seneca's Letters on Ethics, as well as numerous articles in Hellenistic and Roman philosophy.
Inhaltsangabe
Part I. Recreating the Stoic Past: 1. The life of the mind 2. Action and emotion 3. The treatise On Benefits: real kindness and real agency Part II. Rival Traditions in Philosophy: 4. Seneca and Epicurus 5. Refuting the Peripatetics: Seneca and the school of Aristotle Part III. Models of Emotional Experience: 6. Seneca's therapy for anger 7. The weeping wise 8. Anatomies of joy: Seneca and the Gaudium tradition Part IV. The Self within the Text: 9. The challenge of the Phaedrus: therapeutic writing and the Letters on Ethics 10. The mouse, the moneybox, and the six-footed scurrying solecism 11. The manhandling of Maecenas 12. Honeybee reading and self-scripting.
Part I. Recreating the Stoic Past: 1. The life of the mind 2. Action and emotion 3. The treatise On Benefits: real kindness and real agency Part II. Rival Traditions in Philosophy: 4. Seneca and Epicurus 5. Refuting the Peripatetics: Seneca and the school of Aristotle Part III. Models of Emotional Experience: 6. Seneca's therapy for anger 7. The weeping wise 8. Anatomies of joy: Seneca and the Gaudium tradition Part IV. The Self within the Text: 9. The challenge of the Phaedrus: therapeutic writing and the Letters on Ethics 10. The mouse, the moneybox, and the six-footed scurrying solecism 11. The manhandling of Maecenas 12. Honeybee reading and self-scripting.
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