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Sénèque, Frank Marica. "Seneca's "Phoenissae" /." Leiden ; New York ; Köln : E.J. Brill, 1995. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb370624992.
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Eager, Max. "Seneca's influence with Nero." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2018. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:013641d2-8f6d-40bb-9255-0b65a9ee3743.
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This dissertation attempts to illuminate the enigma of Seneca as seen in Tacitus, Seneca politicus, and his capacity at the Palace. The project thus evaluates the three most accessible sources for both how Nero would have viewed Seneca and how Seneca presented himself to Nero - Nero's childhood and education, Apocolocyntosis, and De clementia. Assessment of these sources through the game-theoretical model of signaling and signal games forms a model of their relationship, which itself becomes the thesis of the dissertation. The thesis contends that, post accession, Seneca en-gaged Nero in a didactic relationship focusing on philosophy, or rather, on his own insights into ethical decision-making and morality in interpersonal dealings. But the details surrounding this deduction nuance its interpretation. His presentation of philosophy to Nero smacks of practicality. It is opportunistic, utilizing the philosophi-cally propaedeutic nature of Nero's education; and his own contribution to the imperi-al intellect, clementia, is not convincingly Stoic. Seneca wished to be trusted for his ability to offer advice on interpersonal dealings, and to form acute judgments about other people and their actions.
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Mocanu, Alin. "Ovidian influences in Seneca's Phaedra." Thesis, McGill University, 2014. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=121474.
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The following thesis is an examination of the way Seneca constructs Phaedra, the main character of an eponymous tragedy. It aims to prove that the tragedian uses a mixing of mainly two literary genres, tragedy and elegy, and it analyzes the way the elegiac genre is transformed so it can fit this new generic hybrid. Seneca finds inspiration for the elegiac topoi in Ovid's love poems. The author uses the recurrent elegiac convention involving a soft man, the lover, and a dominant woman, the beloved, but he reverses this literary tradition: Phaedra becomes the lover while Hippolytus becomes the beloved. Besides a series of elegiac topoi such as fiery love metaphors, servitium amoris or symptoms of love, Seneca also deals with the erotic hunting. Roman love elegy often associates the lover, the feeble man, with a hunter, while it represents the beloved, the dominant woman, as his prey. In Phaedra, Hippolytus, a true hunter, becomes an erotic prey, while the female character takes on the role of the erotic predator, which causes the young man's tragic death.<br>Dans ce mémoire de maîtrise on examine la manière dont Sénèque construit Phèdre dans la tragédie portant le même nom. On prouve que pour créer son personnage, le tragédien romain mélange deux genres littéraires : la tragédie et l'élégie. On analyse aussi la façon dont Sénèque altère le genre élégiaque afin qu'il puisse créer un nouveau genre littéraire hybride. L'auteur trouve son inspiration pour les topoi élégiaques dans les poèmes érotiques ovidiens. En dépit de l'utilisation d'une convention élégiaque par excellence qui concerne la relation entre un amoureux, un homme faible, et une bien-aimée, une femme forte et dominante, Sénèque inverse ces éléments et Phèdre devient l'amoureux, tandis qu'Hyppolite se voit attribué le rôle du bien-aimé. À part une série de topoi élégiaques comme les métaphores érotiques du feu, le servitium amoris ou les symptômes de l'amour, le tragédien emploie aussi le lieu commun de la chasse érotique. L'élégie romaine associait très souvent l'homme faible à un chasseur et la femme forte à sa proie. Dans Phèdre, Hippolyte, un vrai chasseur, devient une proie érotique, tandis que le personnage féminin prend le rôle du prédateur, ce qui mène le jeune homme à une fin tragique.
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Smith, Antony. "Seneca's 'De ira' : a study." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c64a2fba-8ba0-4f14-919f-f59ce11cfe34.
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This thesis offers new philosophical and literary interpretations of Seneca's 'De ira'. It takes as its starting-point the observation that both the philosophical position on which the text relies and the way in which it is organised appear to be chaotic, and it investigates how far and why this is the case. It shows that a coherent philosophical position underlies the text but that the text presents it as incoherent, and that it does this for therapeutic purposes. Similarly, it shows that the text is organised in a far more orderly way than has been previously appreciated, and it explains how the (apparent) disruption of that organisational system serves the text's therapeutic function. In making these arguments, it presents new readings of the De ira that reveal the text's philosophical and literary qualities, arguing that it constitutes a more sophisticated response to Seneca's philosophical predecessors than previous accounts have claimed, and that the text, as it progresses, introduces new therapeutic strategies that provide 'safety nets' should its earlier principal strategies have failed. The thesis aims to be methodologically innovative in using Seneca's descriptions of emotional responses as well as more explicit theorising to reconstruct his philosophical position and in suggesting a new approach to interpreting the role of interlocutors and addressees in didactic and dialogic texts.
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Frank, Marica. "Seneca's 'Phoenissae' : introduction and commentary." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/15510.
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The Introduction deals primarily with issues regarding Seneca's Phoenissae specifically, but includes some discussion of more general questions. It consists of the following sections: 1. Title (in which the problem of the two titles, Phoenissae and Thebais, is considered); 2. The Nature and Structure of the Work (which includes discussion of; the unity and state of completion of the Phoenissae, the question of the absence of a chorus, the possibility that the prologue is missing, the ending of the play, Seneca's dramatic purpose); 3. Seneca's Treatment of the Theban Legend (in which Seneca's debt to both his dramatic and non-dramatic precursors is discussed); 4. Philosophy, Rhetoric and Politics in the Phoenissae; 5. Staging (in which there is a general consideration of the question, followed by a discussion of the particular difficulties involved in the Phoenissae); 6. Chronology (which deals with the problem of dating Seneca's plays and the criteria for establishing a relative chronology). The Commentary is a line-by-line literary analysis of the Phoenissae, which includes discussion of syntactical, metrical, textual and philological questions. It is based on the 1986 OCT text of Otto Zwierlein.
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Kaplan, Sylvia Gray. "The judicial message in Seneca's Apocolocyntosis." PDXScholar, 1991. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4183.
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Seneca's Apocolocyntosis is a sat.ire on the deceased emperor Claudius. probably written in the early months after his death in AD54. Although the authorship and title of the work have been called into question. scholars have now reached a consensus that the sat.ire was written by Seneca and is titled "Apocolocyntosis." Its purpose, characteristic of the Menippean genre, was didactic.
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Hirschberg, Theo. "Senecas Phoenissen Einleitung und Kommentar /." Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, 1989. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb350712260.
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Schäfer, Nicole. "Senecas Phaedra : eine gelungene aemulatio /." Amsoldingen : Eigenverlag Schäfer, 1997. http://www.ub.unibe.ch/content/bibliotheken_sammlungen/sondersammlungen/dissen_bestellformular/index_ger.html.
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Höffl, Marc. "A new programming model for enterprise software : Allowing for rapid adaption and supporting maintainability at scale." Thesis, KTH, Elkraftteknik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-215103.
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Companies are under constant pressure to adapt and improve their processes to staycompetitive. Since most of their processes are handled by software, it also needs toconstantly change. Those improvements and changes add up over time and increase thecomplexity of the system, which in turn prevents the company from further adaption.In order to change and improve existing business processes and their implementation withinsoftware, several stakeholders have to go through a long process. Current IT methodologies arenot suitable for such a dynamic environment. The analysis of this change process shows thatfour software characteristics are important to speed it up. They are: transparency, adaptability,testability and reparability. Transparency refers to the users capability to understand what thesystem is doing, where and why. Adaptability is a mainly technical characteristic that indicatesthe capability of the system to evolve or change. Testability allows automated testing andvalidation for correctness without requiring manual checks. The last characteristic is reparability,which describes the possibility to bring the system back into a consistent and correct state, evenif erroneous software was deployed.An architecture and software development patterns are evaluated to build an overall programmingmodel that provides the software characteristics. The overall architecture is basedon microservices, which facilitates decoupling and maintainability for the software as well asorganizations. Command Query Responsibility Segregation decouples read from write operationsand makes data changes explicit. With Event Sourcing, the system stores not only the currentstate, but all historic events. It provides a built-in audit trail and is able to reproduce differentscenarios for troubleshooting and testing.A demo process is defined and implemented within multiple prototypes. The design of theprototype is based on the programming model. It is built in Javascript and implements Microservices,CQRS and Event Sourcing. The prototypes show and validate how the programmingmodel provides the software characteristics. Software built with the programming model allowscompanies to iterate faster at scale. Since the programming model is suited for complex processes,the main limitation is that the validation is based on a demo process that is simpler and thebenefits are hard to quantify.<br>ör att fortsatt vara konkurrenskraftiga är företag under konstant press att anpassa ochförbättra sina processer. Eftersom de flesta processer hanteras av programvara, behöveräven de ständigt förändras. Övertiden leder dessa förbättringar och förändringar till ökadsystemkomplexitet, vilket i sin tur hindrar företaget från ytterligare anpassningar. För attförändra och förbättra befintliga affärsprocesser och dess programvara, måste idag typiskt fleraaktörer vara en del av en lång och tidskrävande process. Nuvarande metoder är inte lämpade fören sådan dynamisk miljö. Detta arbete har fokuserat på fyra programvaruegenskaper som ärviktiga för att underlätta förändringsprocesser. Dessa fyra egenskaper är: öppenhet, anpassningsförmåga,testbarhet och reparerbarhet. Öppenhet, hänvisar till förmågan att förstå varför, var ochvad systemet gör. Anpassningsbarhet är huvudsakligen en teknisk egenskap som fokuserar påsystemets förmåga att utvecklas och förändras. Testbarhet strävar efter automatisk testning ochvalidering av korrekthet som kräver ingen eller lite manuell kontroll. Den sista egenskapen ärreparerbarhet, som beskriver möjligheten att återhämta systemet till ett konsekvent och korrekttillstånd, även om felaktig programvara har använts. En programmeringsmodell som rustarprogramvara med de ovan beskrivna programegenskaperna är utvecklad i detta examensarbete.Programmeringsmodellens arkitektur är baserad på diverse micro-tjänster, vilka ger brafrånkopplings- och underhållsförmåga för en programvara, samt användarorganisationerna.Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) frånkopplar läsoperationer från skrivoperationeroch gör ändringar i data explicita. Med Event Sourcing lagrar systemet inte endastdet nuvarande tillståndet, utan alla historiska händelser. Modellen förser användarna medett inbyggt revisionsspår och kan reproducera olika scenarion för felsökning och testning. Endemoprocess är definierad och implementerad i tre olika prototyper. Designen av prototypernaär baserad på den föreslagna programmeringsmodellen. Vilken är byggd i Javascript och implementerarmicro-tjänster, CQRS och Event Sourcing. Prototyperna visar och validerar hurprogrammeringsmodellen ger programvaran rätt egenskaper. Programvara byggd med dennaprogrammeringsmodell tillåter företag att iterera snabbare. De huvudsakliga begränsningarna iarbetet är att valideringen är baserad på en enklare demoprocess och att dess fördelar är svåraatt kvantifiera.
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Taoka, Yasuko. "Philosophy and erotics in Seneca's Epistulae morales." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1179944055.
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Zanobi, Alessandra. "Seneca's tragedies and the aesthetics of pantomime." Thesis, Durham University, 2008. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/2158/.
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In this thesis I explore the affinities between Seneca's tragic plays and pantomime, arguably the most popular dramatic genre during the Roman Empire, but relatively neglected by literary critics. The research is thus designed to make not only a significant contribution to our understanding of Seneca's tragic art (especially through the explanation of formal features that depart from the conventions of fifth-century Attic drama and have long puzzled scholars), but also to Imperial performance culture more generally. In particular, I hope to shed light on the interaction between so-called 'high’ and 'low' forms of artistic endeavours at the time, which previous scholarship has tended to overlook.
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Cooney, Rachel. "Knowledge and method in Seneca's Natural Questions." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.440266.
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Clay, Jason. "Seneca's Agamemnon: A Literary Translation with Annotations." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1491308000521512.
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Littlewood, C. A. J. "Dramatic role and moral voice in Seneca's tragedies." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.260713.
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Schmitz, Christine. "Die kosmische Dimension in den Tragödien Senecas." Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter, 1993. http://books.google.com/books?id=tHlfAAAAMAAJ.
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Wagoner, Robert Stephen. "Curing Human Misery: A Study of Seneca's Moral Philosophy." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/202933.
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In this dissertation I outline and argue for a new approach to Seneca's moral philosophy - with particular emphasis on the notion that human misery can only be eliminated through philosophy. I argue that a careful reading of Seneca's philosophical texts reveal that a concern for philosophical progress dominates Seneca's writing. This concern manifests itself both in what might be called practical projects in Seneca's philosophical work - including his approaches to reading, writing, teaching, and advising his audience - and in his more theoretical accounts of the nature of philosophy and its role in producing a sound mind. Seneca's concern for philosophical progress shapes his works both substantively and methodologically. This is true of his account of the nature of philosophy and the structure of philosophical discourse, his understanding of philosophical pedagogy, and his approach to reading and writing philosophical texts. The concern for progress is perhaps most pressing on the issue of the emotions. Here, too, Seneca is devoted to helping the audience in a principled, if restrained, way. I argue that Seneca's conception of philosophy as therapy is both more subtle and more successful that those accounts available from his Stoic predecessors.
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Kurth, Thomas. "Senecas Trostschrift an Polybius : Dialog 11 : Ein Kommentar /." Stuttgart : B. G. Teubner, 1994. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37621365f.
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Gauly, Bardo Maria. "Senecas "Naturales quaestiones" : Naturphilosophie für die römische Kaiserzeit /." München : C.H. Beck, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39233611m.
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Gross, Nikolaus. "Senecas Naturales quaestiones : Komposition, naturphilosophische Aussagen und ihre Quellen /." Stuttgart : F. Steiner, 1989. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb36654347q.
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Kroppen, Thomas. "Mortis dolorisque contemptio : Athleten und Gladiatoren in Senecas philosophischem Konzept /." Hildesheim : Weidmann, 2008. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=3087791&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Kroppen, Thomas. "Mortis dolorisque contemptio Athleten und Gladiatoren in Senecas philosophischem Konzept." Hildesheim Weidmann, 2007. http://d-nb.info/988193647/04.
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Allendorf, Tobias Simon. "Echoes of the Republican past : Seneca's tragic chorus and earlier Latin literature." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e046150b-4bac-4a20-99fd-23576f31c617.
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Hönscheid, Christoph. "Fomenta campaniae : Ein Kommentar zu Senecas 51., 55. und 56. Brief /." München : K. G. Saur, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39233464n.
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Conroy, Dene. "The development of a practical moral identity in Seneca's Epistulae morales 1-29." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52512.
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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2001.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In the Epistulae Morales Seneca presents his moral philosophy. Scholars such as Hadot,
Mans and Smuts have studied Seneca's moral philosophy in the Epistulae Morales. The
question is, how does Seneca present and develop his moral philosophy in the Epistulae
Morales, i.e. what literary technique does he use? Scholars have pointed out that Seneca's
use of the epistolary form is an integral part of this literary technique. The epistolary form
was an ideal medium for conveying his moral philosophy: "[Seneca] presented himself as a
spiritual guide, and for that purpose he made use of the literary form of letters ... In this
form Seneca was able to give a detailed presentation of the course of moral education"
(Misch 1950:419). The more specific question is thus: how does Seneca use the epistolary
form to present and develop his moral philosophy in the Epistulae Morales?
In order to answer how Seneca employs the epistolary form, it is necessary to understand
what Seneca's goal was with the Epistulae Morales. I suggest that the goal of Seneca's
moral philosophy in the Epistulae Morales is the development of a practical moral identity.
Seneca's choice of the letter as the form of his philosophical discussion enabled him to
create certain fictional personae. The three main personae of the Epistulae Morales are the
Ideal Persona (the embodiment of Seneca's moral philosophy), the persona Seneca and the
persona Lucilius. These personae demonstrate the phases of moral progress. The Ideal
Persona is the ideal, which the personae Seneca and Lucilius must strive towards becoming.
The persona Seneca acts in the role of the mentor, advising the persona Lucilius on how to
achieve this ideal, but he is himself still struggling towards it. The persona Lucilius is just
beginning to walk the road of moral progress at the beginning of the Epistulae Morales.
The phases of moral progress, which are enacted by the three personae, are also the phases
of the development of a practical moral identity. The practical moral identity should thus
be viewed both as a goal and as a process in the letters.
Epistulae Morales 1-29 form a separate whole, as scholars have pointed out. These letters
also supply sufficient evidence of Seneca's literary technique of developing a practical
moral identity in the Epistulae Morales. A close reading of Epistulae Morales 1-29 in
Chapter 2 analyses this literary technique. Chapter 3 involves a systematic exposition of
the practical moral identity in terms of certain themes. The themes represent the main aspects of moral development, i.e. the main aspects of the development of a practical moral
identity in Epistulae Morales 1-29.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In die Epistulae Morales bied Seneca sy morele filosofie aan. Vakkundiges soos Hadot,
Mans en Smuts het Seneca se morele filosofie in die Epistulae Morales bestudeer. Die
vraag is egter, hoe ontwikkel Seneca sy morele filosofie in die Epistulae Morales, m.a.w
watter literêre tegniek gebruik hy? Vakkundiges het daarop gedui dat Seneca se gebruik
van die briefvorm 'n integrale deel van hierdie literêre tegniek uitmaak. Die briefvorm was
'n ideale medium om sy morele filosofie weer te gee: "[Seneca] presented himself as a
spiritual guide, and for that purpose he made use of the literary form of letters ... In this
form Seneca was able to give a detailed presentation of the course of moral education"
(Misch 1950:419). Die meer spesifieke vraag is dus: hoe gebruik Seneca die briefvorm om
sy morele filosofie in die Epistulae Morales te ontwikkel?
Om hierdie vraag te beantwoord, is dit nodig om te verstaan wat Seneca se doel met die
Epistulae Morales was. Ek stel voor dat Seneca die ontwikkeling van 'n praktiese morele
identiteit ten doel gehad het. Seneca se gebruik van die briefvorm het hom in staat gestel
om sekere fiktiewe personae te skep. Die drie hoof personae van die Epistulae Morales is
die Ideale Persona (die verpersoonliking van Seneca se morele filosofie), die persona
Seneca en die persona Lucilius. Hierdie personae verteenwoordig die fases van morele
ontwikkeling. Die Ideale Persona is die ideaal, wat Seneca en Lucilius moet nastreef.
Seneca speel die rol van mentor. Hy gee Lucilius raad oor hoe om hierdie ideaal te
verwesenlik, maar hyself streef ook daarna. Die Epistulae Morales open met Lucilius aan
die begin van sy morele ontwikkeling. Die fases van morele ontwikkeling wat deur die drie
personae opgevoer word is ook die fases van die ontwikkeling van 'n praktiese morele
identiteit. Die praktiese morele identiteit moet gesien word as beide 'n doel en 'n proses in
die briewe.
Epistulae Morales 1-29 vorm 'n afsonderlike geheel, soos deur vakkundiges uitgewys is.
Hierdie briewe verskaf voldoende bewys vir die literêre tegniek waarmee die praktiese
morele identiteit in die Epistulae Morales geskep word. 'n Gedetailleerde analise van Epistulae Morales 1-29 in Hoofstuk 2 analiseer hierdie literêre tegniek. Hoofstuk 3 gee 'n
sistematiese uiteensetting van die praktiese morele identiteit in terme van sekere temas.
Die temas verteenwoordig die hoof aspekte van morele ontwikkeling, m.a.w. die hoof
aspekte van die ontwikkeling van 'n praktiese morele identiteit in Epistulae Morales 1-29.
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Ely, Joshua. "Comparison of Focus and Audience Between Seneca’s Natural Questions and Pliny’s Natural History." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2368.
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Around 65 AD, the Ancient Roman philosopher Seneca wrote his only text concerning Natural Phenomenon: Natural Questions. Considered since medieval times as part of a trinity of great thinkers including Plato and Aristotle, Seneca’s work in rhetoric, philosophy, and legal theory still receive praise today. The praise is not replicated for Natural Questions, however. Modern historians who consider the work paint it as uninspiring. Pliny, another Roman author and philosopher, wrote a far more encompassing and detailed work called Natural History, and it is this work that is considered the premier Roman comment on Natural Philosophy. These contemporaneous works become juxtaposed and used to criticize Seneca’s work as inferior. A deeper consideration of the texts --primarily the subject material and use of poetry-- will determine that Seneca and Pliny wrote to different audiences and belong to different genres.
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Beniston, Richard John. "Seneca's Natural Questions : Platonism, physics, and Stoic therapy in the First Century AD." Thesis, Durham University, 2017. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/12361/.
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The combination of ethics and physics in Seneca’s Natural Questions has frequently puzzled scholars. Although a number of studies have attempted to reconcile the work’s ethical and physical parts, others maintain that there is no substantial connection between them. Both positions are problematic. The former glosses over the quite obvious ways in which these vivid accounts of vice are thematically at odds with the physics; the latter results in a bifurcation of the aims of the work. This study argues that the incongruous character of these passages plays an integral part in the work’s overall goal: to defend the Stoic account of the ‘the good’. This account was under attack from Platonist rivals. The Stoics argue that the good is grounded ultimately in the wellbeing of the cosmos as a whole; Platonists maintain that conceptualising the good as such is impossible because, as empiricists, the Stoics can only account for a subjective understanding of the good, grounded first and foremost in the wellbeing of the body. Seneca’s engagement with this debate is indicated by the frequent allusions to Plato in the work, particularly the idea of ‘separating soul from body’. Seneca suggests that a carefully structured study of nature can achieve this ‘separation’. This process helps agents to overcome the subjective, body-focussed perspective that the Platonists associate with empiricism. Seneca thus demonstrates a therapeutic means through which an empiricist agent could come to conceive of the good as the Stoics envisage it. This same process of separation from one’s body, however, also provides an ideal opportunity to reflect critically on the objects that we tend to misidentify as goods. It is here that the moralising passages prove useful. These arresting accounts of vice serve to jar us into critical reflection on where we ground our understanding of the good.
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Sinn, Valérie. "Medea und Médée Senecas Drama im Vergleich mit dem Opernlibretto Thomas Corneilles /." [S.l. : s.n.], 2005. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-propylaeumdok-415.
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Kroppen, Thomas [Verfasser]. "Aspekte der stoischen Ethik in Senecas Bild von Athleten und Gladiatoren / Thomas Kroppen." Köln : Zentralbibliothek der Deutschen Sporthochschule, 2007. http://d-nb.info/1103048546/34.
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Hafemann, Kerstin. "Der Kommentar des Iohannes de Segarellis zu Senecas "Hercules furens" : Erstedition und Analyse /." Berlin : W. de Gruyter, 2003. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40004965h.
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Grewe, Stefanie. "Die politische Bedeutung der Senecatragödien und Senecas politisches Denken zur Zeit der Abfassung der "Medea" /." Würzburg : Ergon Verl, 2001. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40007938b.
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Hamacher, Ulf Gregor. "Senecas 82. Brief an Lucilius : Dialektikkritik illustriert am Beispiel der Bekämpfung des "metus mortis : ein Kommentar /." München : K. G. Saur, 2006. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40140268n.
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Wiener, Claudia. "Stoische Doktrin in römischer Belletristik das Problem von Entscheidungsfreiheit und Determinismus in Senecas Tragödien und Lucans Pharsalia /." München : K.G. Saur, 2006. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/65427476.html.
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Raal, Eva-Melitta. "Secundum Naturam Vivere : the stoic telos and practical guidance for the attainment of a happy life in Seneca’s epistulae morales." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/18005.
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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2011.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Stoic philosophy taught along with the other prominent philosophical schools of the Hellenistic Era (i.e. the Academics, the Peripatetics and the Epicureans) that the goal or final end (telos) of human existence is our well-being or happiness (eudaimonia). The Stoics provided various definitions of this telos, the most famous being “living in agreement with nature” (ηὸ ὁκνινγνπκέλσο ηῇ θύζεη δῆλ) or “living according to nature” (secundum naturam vivere) and this goal essentially comes down to living according to perfect reason and virtue. The purpose of this study is to investigate how Seneca presents the Stoic doctrines regarding this topic in his Epistulae Morales (“Letters on Morality”) and to determine whether he managed to make the theoretical framework, proposed by the Stoics for the attainment of a happy life, more easily applicable in practice without compromising orthodox Stoic teachings. The orthodoxy of Seneca‟s philosophy may be judged by comparison with the doctrines of the early Stoic teachers, which is why this study will first look at the traditional Stoic teachings concerning the definition of the telos as well as the theory behind the attainment thereof. Thereafter it will be investigated how true Seneca stayed to these traditional teachings and whether he managed to make the Stoic telos more realistically attainable by the practical advice he offers in his letters.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Stoïsynse filosofie voer aan soos die ander prominente filosofiese skole van die Hellenistiese era (d.w.s. die Akademie, die Peripatetiese skool, en die Epikureërs) dat die einddoel (telos) van die mensdom welsyn of geluk (eudaimonia) is. Die Stoïsyne het verskillende definisies van die telos verskaf; die mees bekende is “om in ooreenkoms met die natuur te leef” (ηὸ ὁκνινγνπκέλσο ηῇ θύζεη δῆλ) of “om volgens die natuur te leef” (secundum naturam vivere) en hierdie einddoel kom in wese daarop neer om volgens volmaakte rede of deug te leef. Die doel van hierdie studie is om te ondersoek hoe Seneca die Stoïsynse leerstellings oor hierdie onderwerp in sy Epistulae Morales (“Briewe oor Moraliteit”) behandel en om te bepaal of hy dit makliker gemaak het om die teoretiese raamwerk, wat deur die Stoïsyne vir die bereiking van 'n gelukkige lewe voorgestel is, in die praktyk toe te pas sonder om die ortodokse Stoïsynse leerstellings te kompromitteer. Die ortodoksie van Seneca se filosofie kan beoordeel word deur dit met die leerstellings van die vroeë Stoïsyne te vergelyk. Hierdie studie begin dus met „n ondersoek na die tradisionele Stoïsynse leerstellings aangaande die definisie van die telos, sowel as die teorie oor die bereiking daarvan. Daarna word ondersoek hoe getrou Seneca was aan die tradisionele leerstellings en of hy deur die praktiese raad in sy briewe dit makliker gemaak het om die Stoïsynse telos te bereik.
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Pugh, Beverley Jane. "Jasper Heywood's translation of Seneca's Thyestes : with particular reference to the latter's sixteenth and seventeenth-century reception and the themes of tyranny, kingship and revenge." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1997. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/4199/.
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The thesis offers a critical analysis of the transmission of Seneca's Thyestes in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In Volume 1, the 1584 Gryphius edition of Seneca's Thyestes; the 1560 edition of Heywood's translation of the play and the 1674 edition of Wright's translation and burlesque version have been transcribed. This is the first time that these texts have been presented together for discussion. The commentary (Volume II) examines a broad range of dramatic material including Neo- Latin plays such as Goldingham's Herodes (1570/80); Gwinne's Nero (1603); Snelling's Thibaldus (1640) and the anonymous Stoicus Vapulans (1648). Prose works considered include the Latin lexicas and grammars of Lilly and Whitinton; philosophical treatises such as Reynolds A Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the soule of Man (1640); and religious works such as Hooper on the Ten Commandments (1560). It presents hitherto unpublished material- MS Sloane 1041; and material that has previously received little attention- the Hendrik Goltzius' engraving of Melpomene (1592) and the Restoration Mock-Thyestes in Burlesque. Research material was consulted at the British Library; BL Department of Manuscripts; BL Print Room; University of Warwick Library; University of Birmingham Library; Senate House Library, University of London; The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford; The Warburg Institute and The Institute of Classical Studies.
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Melanchthon, Philipp. "Elementa rhetorices = Grundbegriffe der Rhetorik : Mit den Briefen Senecas, Plinius' d. J. und den "Gegensätzlichen Briefen" Giovanni Picos della Mirandola und Franz Burchards. - [2. Aufl.]." Universität Potsdam, 2011. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2011/5144/.
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Daß die Rhetorik für die Literatur und Wissenschaft der Frühen Neuzeit von größter Bedeu-tung ist, gehört seit langem zum Grundbestand der Forschung. Trotzdem ist praktisch keine der großen Rhetoriken dieser Zeit in einer neuen Ausgabe oder gar Übersetzung zugänglich. Die vorliegende Ausgabe ist ein erster Schritt, dieser unbefriedigenden Situation Abhilfe zu verschaffen, indem sie Philipp Melanchthons Elementa rhetorices zum ersten Mal in einer kritischen Ausgabe und Übersetzung zur Verfügung stellt. Neben den De copia verborum ac rerum des Erasmus sind Melanchthon Elementa rhetorices wahrscheinlich das meistgedruckte Lehrbuch des 16. Jahrhunderts. 1531 zum ersten Mal erschienen und bis 1539 mehrmals überarbeitet und erweitert, erscheinen sie bis zum Ende des Jahrhunderts in über hundert Ausgaben. An zahllosen Schulen und Universitäten im protestantischen Raum war ihre Lektüre für Generationen von Schülern Pflicht, die Dichter des 17. Jahrhunderts sind mit ihr zur Schule gegangen. Die vorliegende Ausgabe ist nicht nur die erste kritische Ausgabe des Textes, sondern auch die erste vollständige Übersetzung. Die bisher unbekannten Varianten der Ausgaben 1531, 1532 und 1536 sind in einem Variantenverzeichnis erfaßt. Der teilweise schwer zugänglichen Text wird durch einen umfangreichen Kommentar, ein Nachwort und ein Glossar erschlossen. Dabei wird nicht nur der Text selbst in der Form wiedergegeben, in der er dem Leser des 16. Jahrhunderts vorlag, sondern auch der den Elementa rhetorices ursprünglich beigegebene Anhang. Dieser Anhang umfaßt neben drei Briefen von Seneca und Plinius d. J. vor allem die "Gegensätzlichen Briefe" Giovanni Picos della Mirandola und Franz Burchards, einem Schüler Melanchthons. Burchard übernimmt hier die Verteidigung der Rhetorik gegen den über fünfzig Jahre zuvor geführten, scharfen und spöttischen Angriff Picos della Mirandola, der schnell zu einer gewissen Berühmtheit gelangt war. Melanchthon hielt die Verteidigung Burchards nicht nur der Aufnahme in sein Lehrbuch für würdig, sondern verfaßte auch umfangreiche, interpretierende Marginalien zu beiden Briefen. Indem diese Marginalien von den Herausgebern der Gesamtausgabe von Melanchthons Werken nicht aufgenommen wurden, bietet die Ausgabe mit diesen Marginalien auch die erste Edition eines bisher unbekannten Textes.
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Kuen, Gabriele. "Die Philosophie als dux vitae : die Verknüpfung von Gehalt, Intention und Darstellungsweise im philosophischen Werk Senecas am Beispiel des Dialogs "De vita beata : Einleitung, Wortkommentar und systematische Darstellung /." Heidelberg : C. Winter, 1994. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35727734m.
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Lynd, James Munroe. "Aspects of Evil in Seneca's Tragedies." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/44087.
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This thesis explores the theme of evil in Senecan tragedy through the prism of his Stoic principles, as they are illustrated in his philosophic treatises, with special reference to de ira, de clementia, and naturales quaestiones. The introduction defines evil and situates this study in the historical context of Julio-Claudian rule at Rome. In addition, I sketch the relative chronology of Seneca’s works and chart Seneca’s interest in the myths on display in Greek and Roman tragedy.
Chapter One, “The Beast Within,” investigates the contrast of the civilized and uncivilized behaviour of Seneca’s characters in the Phaedra, Thyestes and Hercules Furens. I argue that although Seneca’s characters represent themselves as creatures of civilization and the city in their rejection of wild nature and their embrace of the values of civilization, in their words and actions they repeatedly revert to the wild landscape and bestial appetites that lurk outside the safety of the city walls.
In Chapter Two, “Anger,” I examine the emotion of anger as represented in the Medea and compare that tragic exploration with Seneca’s discussion of the emotion in the de ira, where it is called the greatest vice. I conduct an extensive comparative investigation of the language of Seneca’s treatise de ira and his tragedy Medea. Fitch contends that “the dramas do not read like
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In Chapter Three on “Cruelty,” I discuss the theme of cruelty in the Troades with reference to the de clementia where Seneca develops the theme of cruelty as the opposite of mercy, in an effort to guide the eighteen-year-old emperor Nero to compassionate rule. However, Seneca takes up the question of cruelty not only in the treatise, but also in his moral epistles and in his tragedies, especially the Troades. There I show that Seneca employs tragedy to hold up a mirror to his audience so that they can see their own behaviour reflected in it.
Chapter Four, on “Ghosts and Curses,” takes its starting point from Seneca’s well-known use of ghosts in his tragedies, a feature which had a great influence on Tudor and Jacobean drama. In Senecan tragedy, the presence of ghosts often threatens the safety of the living. I contend that there are four types of ghost in Senecan drama.
In the conclusion, I show that Seneca’s tragedies can be read as a criticism of the powerful, and that his Stoic interpretation of human behaviour can be seen throughout his tragedies.
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Davies, Mark. "A Commentary on Seneca's Epistulae Morales Book IV (Epistles 30-41)." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/6037.
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A commentary on Book IV of Seneca's Epistles needs little justification. To date there is no commentary for the entire book and only brief commentaries for some of the individual letters. A commentary on Book IV would be of use to scholars of Seneca and join the recent commentaries on other books such as Richardson Hay's on Book I and Laudizi's on Book III. The thesis has three introductory chapters. The first of these looks at how Seneca's philosophical writing has been interpreted. It argues that the literary element in Seneca's writing and his use of Latin are integral to his philosophy and cannot be removed to leave some philosophical core that is readily pliant to reconstructing earlier Stoic thought from its fragmentary remains. Furthermore, Seneca' s own opinions on writing and style offer a more reliable guide to reading his work than forcing it to fit some modern literary theory. What emerges from Seneca's writing when such prior agendas and assumptions are put aside is a pragmatic philosophy written to appeal to the values of Seneca's Roman readers. The second chapter argues from Book IV that the book divisions are relevant to the organization of the Epistles. Firstly, one needs to be reminded of the sequential nature of the collection, which Book IV illustrates well, as it marks a shift from the use of quotes to end letters that had been a feature of the first three books. This is an aspect frequently lost in excerpting. Then, the evidence is presented for Book IV being a unitary composition, particularly through the thematic links between the two opening and two closing letters. The third chapter lays out the scope of the commentary. The commentary is organized with an introductory essay prefacing the commentary on each epistle; this serves to compensate for the fragmenting tendency of the commentary as a scholarly form. The emphasis in these essays and in the commentaries is to relate the letters primarily to the wider context of Seneca's thought, and then secondarily to the broader context of ancient philosophic and literary thought.