Beschreibung:
This volume is the first systematic study of Seneca's interaction with earlier literature of a variety of genres and traditions. It examines this interaction and engagement in his prose works, offering interpretative readings that are at once groundbreaking and stimulating to further study.
Introduction: Intertextuality in the Philosopher Seneca Part 1 1. Seneca on Augustus and Roman Fatherhood 2. Myth, Poetry and Homer in Seneca Philosophus 3. Seneca and the Doxography or Ethics Part 2 4. Reading Seneca Reading Vergil 5. Seneca Quoting Ovid in the Epistulae Morales 6. The Importance of Collecting Shells: Intertextuality in Seneca's Epistle 49 7. Sub auro servitus habitat: Seneca's Moralizing of Architecture and the Anti-Neronian Querelle 8. Seneca on the Mother Cow: Poetic Models and Natural Philosophy in the Consolation to Marcia 9. Seneca on Pythagoras' mirabilia aquarum (NQ 3.20-1, 25-6; Ovid Met. 15.270-336)