Intertextuality in Senecas Philosophical Writings

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.

Autorentext

Myrto Garani is Assistant Professor in Latin Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. She is the author of Empedocles Redivivus: Poetry and Analogy in Lucretius (London and New York, 2007) and co-editor with David Konstan of The Philosophizing Muse. The Influence of Greek Philosophy on Roman Poetry, Pierides III (2014). She has also published a number of articles on Empedocles' reception in Latin literature, especially in Ovid's Fasti . Her other publications include articles on Lucretius, Propertius, Ovid and the Pseudo-Vergilian Aetna. She is currently working on a monograph on Seneca's Naturales quaestiones Book 3 and a commentary of Lucretius' De rerum natura 6.

Andreas N. Michalopoulos is Professor of Latin at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He has published extensively on Latin literature of the 1st centuries BC and AD (especially epic, elegy, and drama), he has edited numerous volumes (more recently Dicite, Pierides. Classical Studies in Honour of Stratis Kyriakidis, 2017, with Sophia Papaioannou and Andrew Zissos) and is the author of Ancient Etymologies in Ovid's Metamorphoses: A Commented Lexicon (2001), Ovid, Heroides 16 and 17: Introduction, Text and Commentary (2006), and Ovid, Heroides 20 and 21: Introduction, Text and Commentary (2013). His research interests include Augustan poetry, ancient etymology, Roman drama, the Roman novel, and the modern reception of classical literature.

Sophia Papaioannou is Professor of Latin at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Philology. She is the author of numerous articles and chapters on Augustan literature (especially epic) and on Roman comedy, as well as two books on Ovid: Epic Succession and Dissension: Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.623 14.582 , and the Reinvention of the Aeneid (2005); and Redesigning Achilles: The 'Recycling' of the Epic Cycle in Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.1 13.620 (2007); and a collection of papers on Terence (Terence and Interpretation, 2014). She has published on the reception of Vergil and Ovid in the Late Antiquity across various genres and authors, and one of her current projects includes the tracing of Vergilian and Ovidian influence in the subtext of Nonnus' Dionysiaca .

Zusammenfassung
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.

Inhalt

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)