... of the past. The stories abounded concerning Nero's sexual excesses and his penchant for public performance is reported. The Moral Epistles applied Stoic ethical doctrine to a variety of specific situations. Musonius argues that a master having sex with a female slave is no better than...

.... The chapter evaluates the later Stoics Antipater, Hierocles, and Musonius as one group and then Seneca and Epictetus as another. The friendship-building sexual relations facilitate the progress toward wisdom and virtue for members of the early Stoic city as a whole. Antipater, Musonius, and Hierocles argue...

... that sexual relations are motivated either for the production of children or for pleasure. Seneca advocates procreationism in its Neopythagorean version. Charondas, Ocellus, Seneca, and Musonius appear to have been somewhat distanced from the older Pythagorean eugenics that originally motivated procreationism...