Hardship and Happiness

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Elaine Fantham, Harry M. Hine, James Ker, Gareth D. Williams, Elaine Fantham, Harry M. Hine, James Ker, Gareth D. Williams

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Year: 2014
• ISBN:
  9780226108353
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosophy History & Theory

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE–65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and advisor to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature. The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca is a fresh and compelling series of new English-language translations of his works in eight accessible volumes. Edited by Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C. Nussbaum, this engaging collection helps restore Seneca—whose works have been highly praised by modern authors from Desiderius Erasmus to Ralph Waldo Emerson—to his rightful place among the classical writers most widely studied in the humanities. Hardship and Happiness collects a range of essays intended to instruct, from consolations—works that offer comfort to someone who has suffered a personal loss—to pieces on how to achieve happiness or tranquility in the face of a difficult world. Expertly translated, the essays will be read and used by undergraduate philosophy students and experienced scholars alike.

Index

Accius, Lucius, xxii

Achilles, 187

actio iniuriarum, 143, 144, 169n1

Aelia Paetina, 101n18

Aeneas, 74n19

Aeneid (Virgil), 37n9, 231n2, 268n20, 269n47

Aeschylus’s brother, 210n19

Aesop, 88, 231n1

Agamemnon (Seneca), xxii, xxiii

Agrippa, Marcus Vipsanius, 103n43

Agrippa, Menenius, 62, 63, 75n45

Agrippina, x, 102n25, 178

Akalaitis, Joanne, xxviii

Alcestis, 76n68

Alcibiades, 266

Alcmena, 138n39

Alexander the Great, 73n13, 155

Alexandria library, 196, 211n32

Alpheus, 40n56

American transcendentalism, xvii

anger, 111, 158, 192

animals: grief of, 12–13; life span of, 29; Stoicism on, xiii

Annales (Tacitus), ix, 104n49, 237

Antenor, 54

anticipation: of loss of wealth, 263–64; of misfortune, 51, 199–200, 202, 212n48; of suffering, 13–14

Antiochus III, 129, 138n45

Antisthenes, 167, 172n43

Antonia (Claudius’s daughter), 101n18

Antonia (Claudius’s mother), 104n47

Antonio’s Revenge (Marston), xxvii

Antonius, Gaius, 104n47

Antonius, Iullus, 114, 135n6

Antonius, Marcus, 37n6, 96–97, 104n47, 135nn5–6

anxiety, 128–30, 162

apatheia, xiv–xv, 137n36

Apicius, M. Gavius, 60, 75n41, 249, 268–69nn28–29

Apocolocyntosis (Seneca), 80

Apollinaris, Sidonius, xxii

Apology of Socrates (Plato), 237, 302n48

Appius Claudius Caecus, 293, 301n39

Arcesilaus, 137n35, 207

Areopagus, 191

Arethusa spring, 23, 40n56

Areus Didymus, 10–12, 37n16

Aristides, 64

Aristippus of Cyrene, 269n36

Aristogeiton, 210n20

Aristophanes, 265

Aristotle, xvi, 104n55, 110, 126, 135n2, 207, 228, 232n14, 232n21, 266

Athenodorus of Tarsus, 188–89, 192, 210n15

Athens, thirty tyrants of, 191, 210n20

Atlas, 101n13

Attalus, 162, 171n30

Atticus, T. Pomponius, 114, 1...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• Title Page
• Series Page
• Contents
• Seneca and His World
• Note on Essays and Their Sequence
• Consolation to Marcia
• Consolation to Helvia
• Consolation to Polybius
• On the Shortness of Life
• On the Constancy of the Wise Person
• On Tranquility of Mind
• On Leisure
• On the Happy Life
• On Providence
• Index