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Contributors page ix

Seneca: An Introduction 1 Shadi Bartsch and Alessandro Schiesaro

Part I The Senecan Corpus

1 Seneca Multiplex: The Phases (and Phrases) of Seneca’s Life and Works 15 Susanna Braund

2 Senecan Tragedy 29 Christopher Trinacty

3 Absent Presence in Seneca’s Epistles : Philosophy and Friendship 41 Catharine Edwards

4 The Dialogue in Seneca’s Dialogues (and Other Moral Essays) 54 Matthew Roller

5 Seneca on Monarchy and the Political Life: De Clementia , De Tranquillitate Animi , De Otio 68 Malcolm Schofield

6 Exploring Appearances: Seneca’s Scientifi c Works 82 Francesca Romana Berno

7 Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis: Censors in the Afterworld 93 Kirk Freudenburg

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Part II Texts and Contexts

8 Seneca and Augustan Culture 109 James Ker

9 Seneca and Neronian Rome: In the Mirror of Time 122 Victoria Rimell

10 Style and Form in Seneca’s Writing 135 Gareth Williams

11 Seneca’s Images and Metaphors 150 Mireille Armisen-Marchetti

12 Theater and Theatricality in Seneca’s World 161 Cedric A. J. Littlewood

13 Senecan Emotions 174 David Konstan

Part III Senecan Tensions

14 Senecan Selves 187 Shadi Bartsch

15 Seneca’s Shame 199 David Wray

16 Theory and Practice in Seneca’s Writings 212 Carey Seal

17 Seneca’s Originality 224 Elizabeth Asmis

18 Seneca and Epicurus: The Allure of the Other 239 Alessandro Schiesaro

Part IV The Senecan Tradition

19 Seneca and the Ancient World 255 Aldo Setaioli vi

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20 Seneca and the Christian Tradition 266 Chiara Torre

21 Seneca Redivivus : Seneca in the Medieval and Renaissance World 277 Roland Mayer

22 Senecan Political Thought from the Middle Ages to Early Modernity 289 Peter Stacey

23 Seneca and the Moderns 303 Francesco Citti

General Bibliography 319 Index 347

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