...This chapter discusses courtly ideologies of sexual morality and gender in the early modern period, exemplifying with spoken dramas and opera libretti derived from ancient plays on the analogous figures of Phaedra, wife of Theseus (Euripides, Seneca, Racine, Lalli, Salvioni) and Fausta, wife...

...Give time’s double-sided structure, we then consider implications of this theory on the status of an ethical act. To do this, we consider the “event of death,” specifically the suicides of Seneca and Deleuze. We then take up Deleuze’s seemingly mysterious suggestion that chronos...

...In Greek and Roman antiquity, revenge is represented as a masculine duty, which is usually carried out by relatives or intimate friends. In Seneca’s drama, Medea adopts this masculine role by exacting revenge for her father and brother, which marks her as a transgressive woman. However, Medea also...

...A fragment of Livy, most probably from book 116 (a ‘definitive’ portrait of Caesar following the account of his death), raised a question mark over Caesar's entire career. By citing it Seneca introduced a new angle, which has its own profound poetry — an analogy with the wind: ‘As things...

...Michael Goyette examines Seneca’s philosophical writing and argues that his rhetoric exposes an attitude toward both the emotions and the body that was and is toxic in its sexist tropes, its misogyny, and its repression and shaming of the emotions. Goyette then identifies parallels to Seneca’s...

... a part, is analysed as part of an organic cu1ture. This chapter focuses mainly on gender construction in the rhetorical schools, spotlighting the elder Seneca. It first discusses gender and public space, Orientalism and the tirocinium fori (‘recruitment to the forum’). The chapter then examines style...

... scene acquired a specific and complex moral value. For revenge tragedy this was significant because the Vice had been the origin and impetus of the revenge narrative since English playwrights had first shown interest in the theme of extra-judicial vengeance, in translations of Seneca in the 1560s...

...In 1532, a young humanist attempted to force his way into the illustrious upper echelons of classics scholarship by publishing a commentary on Seneca’s De clementia (On Clemency). However, the commentary was received with no fanfare. The ambitious Frenchman’s pride...