Nurses’ Prayers, Philosophical otium, and Fat Pigs: Seneca Ep. 60 versus Horace Ep. 1.4

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Foreword V
3. Table of Contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. I. Philosophy in Literature – Literature in Philosophy
6. Dressing Philosophy with sal niger. Horace’s Role in Seneca’s Approach to the Diatribic Tradition 27
7. Nurses’ Prayers, Philosophical otium, and Fat Pigs: Seneca Ep. 60 versus Horace Ep. 1.4 53
8. Saturnalian Exchanges: Seneca, Horace, and Satiric Advice 73
9. II. Horatian Verse in Senecan Tragedy
10. Custode rerum Caesare: Horatian Civic Engagement and the Senecan Tragic Chorus 93
11. Horatian Contexts in Senecan Tragedy 113
12. Sounds and Space. Seneca’s Horatian Lyrics 137
13. Strictness, Freedom, and Experimentation in Horatian and Senecan Metrics 159
14. III. Themes and Concepts
15. Time in Horace and Seneca 185
16. Studiorum instrumenta: Loaded Libraries in Seneca and Horace 211
17. The Metapoetics of Liber-ty. Horace’s Bacchic Ship in Seneca’s De Tranquillitate Animi 239
18. Constructing Oneself in Horace and Seneca 265
19. IV. Modes of Quotation and Issues of Reception
20. Nostra faciamus. Quoting in Horace and Seneca 289
21. Horace, Seneca, and Martial: ‘Sententious Style’ across Genres 315
22. Seneca, Horace, and the Anglo-Latin ‘Moralising Lyric’ in Early Modern England 345
23. Table of Correspondences 371
24. Works cited 401
25. Contributors and Editors 431
26. General Index 433