Seneca

MARGARET GRAVER is the Aaron Lawrence Professor of Classics at Dartmouth College. Her previous publications include Stoicism and Emotion (2007), Cicero on the Emotions: Tusculan Disputations 3 and 4 (2002) and, with A. A. Long, a complete translation of Seneca's Letters on Ethics, as well as numerous articles in Hellenistic and Roman philosophy.

'In looking over the essays as a whole, I am struck by the wide variety of interests and themes that Graver has tackled over the last three decades. Her observations and analysis are always clear and sharp, and I felt that I gained a further appreciation of the nuances of Seneca's moral psychology and Stoic sympathies in reading these pieces. It was also interesting to observe how, for example, a mention of gaudium in an early essay resonates in later pieces, or how in certain essays Graver brings her encyclopedic knowledge of broader Greek and Roman philosophy to bear.' Christopher Trinacty, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

• Part I. Recreating the Stoic Past: 1. The life of the mind; 2. Action and emotion; 3. The treatise On Benefits: real kindness and real agency; Part II. Rival Traditions in Philosophy: 4. Seneca and Epicurus; 5. Refuting the Peripatetics: Seneca and the school of Aristotle; Part III. Models of Emotional Experience: 6. Seneca's therapy for anger; 7. The weeping wise; 8. Anatomies of joy: Seneca and the Gaudium tradition; Part IV. The Self within the Text: 9. The challenge of the Phaedrus: therapeutic writing and the Letters on Ethics; 10. The mouse, the moneybox, and the six-footed scurrying solecism; 11. The manhandling of Maecenas; 12. Honeybee reading and self-scripting.