The Epicurus Trope and the Construction of a “Letter Writer” in Seneca’s Epistulae Morales

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Getting to Goodness: Reflections on Chapter 10 of Brad Inwood, Reading Seneca 9
5. Seneca on Prolēpsis: Greek Sources and Cicero’s Influence 43
6. Did Seneca Understand Medea? A Contribution to the Stoic Account of Akrasia 65
7. Seneca on Acting against Conscience 95
8. Seneca on the Analysis and Therapy of Occurrent Emotions 111
9. Double Vision and Cross-Reading in Seneca’s Epistulae Morales and Naturales Quaestiones 135
10. Freedom in Seneca: Some Reflections on the Relationship between Philosophy and Politics, Public and Private Life 167
11. Torture in Seneca’s Philosophical Works: Between Justification and Condemnation 189
12. Gender–Based Differential Morbidity and Moral Teaching in Seneca’s Epistulae morales 209
13. My Family Tree Goes Back to the Romans: Seneca’s Approach to the Family in the Epistulae Morales 229
14. Honeybee Reading and Self-Scripting: Epistulae Morales 84 269
15. The Philosopher as Craftsman: A Topos between Moral Teaching and Literary Production 295
16. Sententiae in Seneca 319
17. Having the Right to Philosophize: A New Reading of Seneca, De Vita Beata 1.1–6.2 343
18. In Praise of Tubero’s Pottery: A Note on Seneca, Ep. 95.72–73 and 98.13 369
19. Seneca’s Letters to Lucilius: Hypocrisy as a Way of Life 393
20. The Epicurus Trope and the Construction of a “Letter Writer” in Seneca’s Epistulae Morales 431
21. Abbreviations 467
22. Index of Passages Cited 469
23. Index of Modern Authors 495
24. General Index 505