Serenity in the crisis: Seneca’s Epistle 24

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https://doi.org/10.22409/cadletrasuff.2018n56a555

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Seneca, Epistolography, Stoicism.

Abstract

In the imminence of a critical situation, there is no reason to anticipate suffering, warns Seneca in Epistle 24 of the voluminous correspondence of Stoic ethics addressed to his friend Lucilius. The sophistication of the author in the treatment of the philosophical matter adapted to the epistolographic genre comes to the fore in the use of the exempla and in the direct interlocution with death. This is an epistle that reveals a tense and unpredictable political context.

 

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22409/cadletrasuff.2018n56a555

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Renata Cazarini de Freitas, Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF)

Docente de Língua e literatura latina na UFF/Niterói, doutoranda e mestre em Letras Clássicas pela USP, especialista em Estudos Clássicos pela UnB.

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2018-07-24

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CAZARINI DE FREITAS, R. Serenity in the crisis: Seneca’s Epistle 24. Caderno de Letras da UFF, v. 28, n. 56, p. 287-310, 24 Jul. 2018.

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Vol. 28 No. 56 (2018): Classical Studies

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