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Seneca on the Nature of Things: Moral Concerns and Theories of Matter in Natural Questions 6

2017

It is generally recognized that Lucretius' treatment of earthquakes and pestilences (6.535-607; 1090-1286) exerted great influence on Book 6 of Seneca's Natural Questions. But while a large consensus exists that both authors tend to emphasize the moral value of scientific knowledge, further research is needed with respect to Seneca's “technical” re-use of Epicurean physics and meteorology. In the present paper, I shall address this issue in three stages. First, I will analyze the structure and intellectual goals of Seneca's “doxographic” review of seismological theories (6.5-20). Far from being a doxographic account sensu proprio, such a careful review constructs the inspiring image of an i…

EpicureanismStoicismintertextualityRoman philosophyNatural QuestionearthquakeLucretiumatter theorieSenecaancient scienceSettore L-FIL-LET/04 - Lingua E Letteratura Latina
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Evil, Progress, and Fall: Moral Readings of Time and Cultural Development in Roman Literature and Philosophy

2014

Latin literature and philosophyRoman culturecultural developmentanthropology of the ancient worldRoman LiteratureRoman Philosophytime; socio-cultural history; Roman culture; anthropology of the ancient world; Latin literature and philosophytimeSettore L-FIL-LET/04 - Lingua E Letteratura Latinasocio-cultural history
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