Brill's Companion to Seneca: Philosopher and DramatistAndreas Heil, Gregor Damschen 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
Senecas Life and Career | 3 |
The Works of Seneca the Younger and Their Dates | 33 |
Transmission | 45 |
PART ONE LIFE AND LEGACY | 51 |
Seneca the Philosopher | 53 |
Seneca the Dramatist | 73 |
PART TWO PHILOSOPHY | 95 |
Senecas Philosophical Predecessors and Contemporaries | 97 |
Context | 405 |
PART THREE TRAGEDY | 423 |
Hercules furens | 425 |
Troas | 435 |
Phoenissae | 449 |
Medea | 459 |
Phaedra | 475 |
Oedipus | 483 |
PART TWO PHILOSOPHY | 113 |
De providentia | 115 |
De constantia sapientis | 121 |
De ira | 127 |
Consolatio ad Marciam | 135 |
De vita beata | 141 |
De otio | 147 |
De tranquillitate animi | 153 |
De brevitate vitae | 161 |
Consolatio ad Polybium | 167 |
Consolatio ad Helviam | 171 |
De clementia | 175 |
Naturales quaestiones | 181 |
Epistulae morales | 191 |
De beneficiis | 201 |
Lost and Fragmentary Works | 207 |
Epistulae Senecae ad Paulum et Pauli ad Senecam | 213 |
PART TWO PHILOSOPHY | 215 |
Ontology and Epistemology | 217 |
Philosophy as Therapy SelfTransformation and Lebensform | 239 |
Action and Emotion | 257 |
Free Will and Autonomy | 277 |
Wisdom and Virtue | 301 |
Death and Time | 323 |
Body and Soul | 343 |
Cosmology and Natural Philosophy | 363 |
Theology | 379 |
PART THREE TRAGEDY | 403 |
Agamemnon | 493 |
Thyestes | 501 |
PART THREE TRAGEDY | 513 |
Hercules Oetaeus | 515 |
Octavia | 521 |
PART THREE TRAGEDY | 529 |
Space and Time in Senecan Drama | 531 |
Vision Sound and Silence in the Drama of the Word | 547 |
Seneca as Lyric Poet | 561 |
The Rhetoric of Rationality and Irrationality | 575 |
Characters | 593 |
Themes | 615 |
Greek and Roman Elements in Senecan Tragedy | 639 |
Philosophical Tragedy? | 653 |
PART FOUR APOCOLOCYNTOSIS | 671 |
Apocolocyntosis | 673 |
PART FIVE OTHER WORKS | 687 |
Epigrams | 689 |
De vita patris | 695 |
PART SIX SYNTHESIS | 697 |
Senecas Language and Style | 699 |
Systematic Connections between Senecas Philosophical Works and Tragedies | 745 |
List of Journal Abbreviations | 769 |
Bibliography | 771 |
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