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i Intertextuality in Seneca’s 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. Focusing on the Dialogues, the Naturales quaestiones, and the Moral Epistles, the volume includes multi- perspectival studies of Seneca’s interaction with all the great Latin epics (Lucretius, Vergil and Ovid), and discussions of how Seneca’s philosophical thought is informed by Hellenistic doxography, forensic rhetoric and declamation, the Homeric tradition, Euripidean tragedy and Greco-R oman mythology. The studies analyzes the philosophy behind Seneca’s incorporating exact quotations from earlier tradition (including his criteria of selectivity) and Seneca’s interaction with ideas, trends and techniques from different sources, in order to elucidate his philosophical ideas and underscore his original contribution to the discussion of established philosophical traditions. They also provide a fresh interpretation of moral issues with particular application to the Roman worldview as fashioned by the mos maiorum. The volume, finally, features detailed discussion of the ways in which Seneca, the author of philosophical prose, puts forward his stance towards poetics and figures himself as a poet. Intertextuality in Seneca’s Philosophical Writings will be of interest not only to those working on Seneca’s philosophical works, but also to anyone working on Latin literature and intertextuality in the ancient world. 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 (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 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. ii 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. ii i Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies Titles include: The Making of Identities in Athenian Oratory Edited by Jakub Filonik, Brenda Griffith- Williams and Janek Kucharski Homicide in the Attic Orators Rhetoric, Ideology, and Context Christine Plastow Underworld Gods in Ancient Greek Religion Ellie Mackin Roberts Bride of Hades to Bride of Christ The Virgin and the Otherwordly Bridegroom in Ancient Greece and Early Christian Rome Abbe Walker Intertextuality in Seneca’s Philosophical Writings Edited by Myrto Garani, Andreas N. Michalopoulos and Sophia Papaioannou Drama, Oratory and Thucydides in Fifth- Century Athens Teaching Imperial Lessons Sophie Mills The Poetics in its Aristotelian Context Edited by Pierre Destrée, Malcolm Heath and Dana L. Munteanu Text and Intertext in Greek Epic and Drama Essays in Honor of Margalit Finkelberg Edited by Jonathan J. Price and Rachel Zelnick- Abramovitz For more information on this series, visit: https:// www.routledge.com/ classicalstudies/ series/ RMCS v Intertextuality in Seneca’s Philosophical Writings Edited by Myrto Garani, Andreas N. Michalopoulos and Sophia Papaioannou vi First published 2020 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2020 selection and editorial matter, Myrto Garani, Andreas N. Michalopoulos and Sophia Papaioannou; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Myrto Garani, Andreas N. 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British Library Cataloguing-i n- Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-i n- Publication Data A catalog record has been requested for this book ISBN: 9780367331511 (hbk) ISBN: 9780429318153 (ebk) Typeset in Times New Roman by Newgen Publishing UK vi i Contents List of contributors ix Preface and acknowledgements xii List of abbreviations xiii Introduction: intertextuality in the philosopher Seneca 1 MYRTO GARANI, ANDREAS N. MICHALOPOULOS AND SOPHIA PAPAIOANNOU PART 1 21 1 Seneca on Augustus and Roman fatherhood 23 AMANDA WILCOX 2 Myth, poetry and Homer in Seneca philosophus 50 R. SCOTT SMITH 3 Seneca and the doxography of ethics 81 JULA WILDBERGER PART 2 105 4 Reading Seneca reading Vergil 107 SOPHIA PAPAIOANNOU 5 Seneca quoting Ovid in the Epistulae morales 130 ANDREAS N. MICHALOPOULOS viii viii Contents 6 The importance of collecting shells: intertextuality in Seneca’s Epistle 49 142 FRANCESCA ROMANA BERNO 7 Sub auro servitus habitat: Seneca’s moralizing of architecture and the anti- Neronian querelle 161 TOMMASO GAZZARRI 8 Seneca on the mother cow: poetic models and natural philosophy in the Consolation to Marcia 179 FABIO TUTRONE 9 Seneca on Pythagoras’ mirabilia aquarum (NQ 3.20– 1, 25– 6; Ovid Met. 15.270– 336) 198 MYRTO GARANI Index locorum 254 General index 271 ix Contributors Francesca Romana Berno is Associate Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Sapienza University of Rome. Her main interests lie in Seneca’s prose works, on which she has published three monographs (NQ, 2003; Epistles 53– 57, 2006; De constantia sapientis, 2018) and several articles, where she deals with rhetorical tools (metaphors, poetic quotations, historical examples) and their parenetic function. She is also enquiring on some philosophical issues in Cicero and Ovid. Myrto Garani (BA Thessaloniki, MA and PhD London) 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-e ditor with David Konstan of The Philosophizing Muse. The Influence of Greek Philosophy on Roman Poetry, Pierides III (Newcastle- upon- Tyne, 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. Tommaso Gazzarri, Yale PhD, is Assistant Professor of Classics at Union College (Schenectady, NY). He has published on Plautus, Seneca, Petronius and ancient sexuality. He is currently completing a monograph on Seneca’s deployment of figural language in his philosophical oeuvre. His main scholarly interests concern Roman Stoicism, ancient rhetoric and the relations between Greek and Roman cultures in the years of the late Republic and early Empire (mainly the Julio- Claudian dynasty). Andreas N. Michalopoulos, PhD Leeds, 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, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2017, with Sophia Papaioannou and Andrew Zissos) x x Contributors and is the author of Ancient Etymologies in Ovid’s Metamorphoses: A Commented Lexicon (Leeds: Francis Cairns, 2001), Ovid, Heroides 16 and 17: Introduction, Text and Commentary (Cambridge: Francis Cairns, 2006), and Ovid, Heroides 20 and 21: Introduction, Text and Commentary (Athens: Papadimas, 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 (Berlin 2005); and Redesigning Achilles: The ‘Recycling’ of the Epic Cycle in Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.1– 13.620 (Berlin 2007); and a collection of papers on Terence (Terence and Interpretation, Newcastle 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. R. Scott Smith is Professor of Classics at the University of New Hampshire, where he has taught since 2000. In addition to a deep and abiding interest in Seneca the Younger, both prose and poetry, he has published widely in the field of myth and mythography, including co-a uthored or co-e dited volumes: Anthology of Classical Myth (Cambridge, MA 2016), Writing Myth: Mythography in the Greek and Roman World (Leuven 2013), and Apollodorus’ Library and Hyginus’ Fabulae (Cambridge, MA 2007). Recently he has been studying the way in which the Greeks and Romans organized and transmitted their own mythical stories through the medium of geographical texts, as well as how mythographical material was integrated into ancient commentaries and scholia. He is currently co- editing the Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Mythography (forthcoming 2020). Fabio Tutrone is a Research and Teaching Fellow in Latin literature at the University of Palermo, where he also obtained his PhD in Greek and Latin Philology and Culture in 2009. He has held visiting positions in the United States, Switzerland and Germany, and has recently worked in a nationally funded project on the ‘anthropology of ancient myth’ directed by Professor Maurizio Bettini. His research focuses on the history of Roman literature, science and philosophy, with special regard to Lucretius, Seneca and the Latin reception of Greek thought. He has particular interest in literary topics of cognitive and anthropological relevance, such as the representa- tion of animals and man-a nimal relationships, the sociology of scientific knowledge, and the cultural perception of time. His publications include Filosofi e animali in Roma antica: Modelli di animalità e umanità in Lucrezio e Seneca (Pisa, ETS, 2012), and Evil, Progress, and Fall: Moral Readings