The volume contains a comprehensive survey of each genuine or attributed work of Seneca in the style of concise handbook articles ("Works"). The cultural background ("Context") and the most important problem areas within the philosophic and tragic corpus of Seneca are dealt with in fuller presentations ("Topics").

Contents Preface Part One - Life and Legacy Imago suae vitae: Seneca's Life and Career Thomas Habinek TheWorks of Seneca the Younger and Their Dates C.W. Marshall Transmission Rolando Ferri Seneca and Senecae: Images of Seneca from Antiquity to Present Seneca the Philosopher Matthias Laarmann Seneca the Dramatist Werner Schubert Part Two - Philosophy Context: Seneca's Philosophical Predecessors and Contemporaries John Sellars Works De providentia R. Scott Smith De constantia sapientis R. Scott Smith De ira Maria Monteleone Consolatio ad Marciam Jochen Sauer De vita beata Fritz-Heiner Mutschler De otio R. Scott Smith De tranquillitate animi Fritz-Heiner Mutschler De brevitate vitae R. Scott Smith Consolatio ad Polybium Jochen Sauer Consolatio ad Helviam Jochen Sauer De clementia Ermanno Malaspina Naturales quaestiones Gareth D. Williams Epistulae morales Aldo Setaioli De beneficiis Mario Lentano Lost and FragmentaryWorks Anna Maria Ferrero Epistulae Senecae ad Paulum et Pauli ad Senecam Alfons Furst Topics Ontology and Epistemology Mireille Armisen-Marchetti Ethics I: Philosophy as Therapy, Self-Transformation, and "Lebensform" Aldo Setaioli Ethics II: Action and Emotion Margaret R. Graver Ethics III: Free Will and Autonomy Aldo Setaioli Ethics IV: Wisdom and Virtue Jula Wildberger Ethics V: Death and Time Catharine Edwards Physics I: Body and Soul R. Scott Smith Physics II: Cosmology and Natural Philosophy Bardo Maria Gauly Physics III: Theology Aldo Setaioli Part Three - Tragedy Context Wolf-Luder Liebermann Works Hercules furens Margarethe Billerbeck Troas Wilfried Stroh Phoenissae Marica Frank Medea Wolf-Luder Liebermann Phaedra Roland Mayer Oedipus Karlheinz Tochterle Agamemnon Christoph Kugelmeier Thyestes Chiara Torre DubiousWorks Hercules Oetaeus C.A.J. Littlewood Octavia Rolando Ferri Topics Space and Time in Senecan Drama Ernst A. Schmidt Vision, Sound, and Silence in the "Drama of theWord" Andreas Heil The Chorus: Seneca as Lyric Poet Giancarlo Mazzoli The Rhetoric of Rationality and Irrationality Gottfried Mader Characters G.W.M. Harrison Themes G.W.M. Harrison Greek and Roman Elements in Senecan Tragedy Sander M. Goldberg Philosophical Tragedy? Francois-Regis Chaumartin Part Four - Apocolocyntosis Apocolocyntosis Renata Roncali Part Five - Other Works Epigrams Joachim Dingel De vita patris Michael Winterbottom Part Six - Synthesis Seneca's Language and Style Michael von Albrecht Systematic Connections between Seneca's PhilosophicalWorks and Tragedies Susanna E. Fischer List of Journal Abbreviations Bibliography Andrea Balbo and Ermanno Malaspina Editions of Seneca'sWorks (Since Haase's Opera Omnia) Contributors General Index