Dialogues and Letters (21 page)

Harmodius
39

heavens: change in
8–9
; soul's affinity with
xiv
,
8
,
17
,
97
;

universality
12

Hellenistic influence
xi

Helvia (Seneca's mother):
Consolation to
see
individual entry
;
family
25–8
;
life
4–5
;
virtues
xxii
,
21
,
22–3

Hephaestion, Lycia
95–6

Hercules
55

Hippocrates of Cos
59

holidays
57
,
64

Homer
18
,
35
,
73–4

honesty in self-appraisal
32
,
33

hope
34
,
44
,
54

houses
12
,
30
,
44
,
112

Hume, David
xviii

humour, sense of
54–5

hypocrisy, charges of
ix
,
xvii
,
90

idleness
34
,
50–51
,
60
,
71
,
72–3
,
89

imagery, Seneca's xi;
see also
medical imagery
;
military imagery

immediacy
68–9

immigration to cities
7–8

immortality of soul
xix
,
17
,
28
,
53
,
94

imprisonment
87
,
88
,
90

indecision, moral
xxi
,
29–58

India
9

indolence
see
idleness inertia
33–4

inflection, Latin
xxiii

influence: detachment from
6–7
; Seneca's later
xvi-xix
; women's
20
,
27–8

inheritances
20–21
,
66

inspiration
58

irresolution, moral
xxi
,
29–58

Isocrates
41

Ister, River
109

Italy: Greek colonies
9
; medieval drama xvi;
see also
Rome Ixion
90

Jerome, St
xvii

John of Salisbury
xviii

Jonson, Ben
xix

Jugurtha, king of Numidia
50

Julia (daughter of Augustus)
63

Julia Livilla
viii
,
xxii

Julius Canus
52–4

Juno (guardian spirit)
100

Jupiter
78
,
104

kings
49
,
79

knowledge: dispels fear
101–2
; indiscriminate
xxi
,
73–5

Kyd, Thomas
xvi

Lactantius
xvii

Latin language, translation of
xxiii

law
60
,
66–7
,
71
,
80

Law Tables
74

legacy-hunting
66

leisure and retirement: choice of public life or
30–31
,
40
,
41
,
46
,
62–5
,
80
; deferment
62
,
83
; Epicurean quietism
76
; and tranquillity of mind
25
,
36–7
,
82
; unfulfilled longing for
62–5
; value
39
,
80–82

Lepidus, Marcus Aemilius; plot against Augustus
63

lethargy
34
,
57

letters: Greek philosophical
xi–xii
;
see also
letters (
Epistulae Morales
)

letters (
Epistulae Morales
)
x
,
xi–xiii
,
xix–xx
,
85–104
;
24
xix
,
87–92
;
56
xii;
57
xix
,
93–4
;
79
xix–xx
,
95–9
;
110
xiii
,
xx
,
100–104
; spurious correspondence with St Paul
xvii–xviii
; popularity in posterity
xii–xiii
,
xviii

Liber (god of wine)
58

libraries
45

life: learning to live
65–6
,
82
; living immediately
68–9
; as loan
47
,
48
; making light of
46
,
54–5
; span
59

lightning
112

Ligurians
10

literary emulation
xx
,
96

Livy (Titus Livius)
45

Lodge, Thomas
xviii

logos
xiv

Lucan (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus)
ix
,
25

Lucania
35

Lucilius (addres see of letters)
xii

Lucretius Carus, Titus
35
,
101

lust
19
,
44
,
65

luxury
14–16
,
30
,
35
,
72–3
,
102–3
,
108

Lycia
95–6

Macedonians
9

madness
58

Magna Graecia
9

Marcellus, Marcus Claudius (consul 51
Bc
)
13–14

Marcus Aurelius, Emperor
xiii

Marius, Gaius
11
,
80

marriages, Seneca's
viii

Martin of Braga, St
xviii

masks
88
,
99

Massiliot Greeks
10

medical imagery and analogies
3
,
4
,
5
,
32
,
41–2
,
63

Mela, Lucius(?) Annaeus (Seneca's brother)
5
,
25

Menenius Agrippa
18
,
19

Menippean satire
x

Mentana (Nomentum)
100

Messana
74

Metellus, Lucius Caecilius
75

Metellus Numidicus, Quintus Caecilius
87

Metrodorus of Lampsacus
98

Middle Ages
xiii
,
xvi
,
xviii

migrations
9–11

Miletus
9

military imagery
6
,
36–7
,
44
,
109
,
112

military service
18
,
37
,
38
,
57
,
60

mimes
73

miserliness
xv
,
65

misfortunes: beneficial effects
4
,
44
,
100–101
;

facing up to
xix
,
48–50
,
51–2
,
87–92
;

repeated
19
,
22
,
46
;

welcome occurences leading to
100–101
;

see also
fortitude in adversity

Mithridates, king of Armenia
50

models, literary
xx
,
96

modesty, female
23
,
26

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de
xviii

monuments
77
,
83

moon
12

moral purpose, lack of
xxi
,
29–58

mothers
4
,
20–21
;

Seneca's
see
Helvia
; step- 4

mourning, widows' right to
22

Murena, Aulus Terentius Varro
63

Musonius Rufus, Gaius
xxii

Mytilene
13

Naples–Puteoli tunnel
93–4

Natural Questions
x
,
xiv
,
xxii–xxiii
,
105–13
;

on earthquakes
112–13
;

on Nile Cataracts
110–11
;

protreptic
107–9

Nature
xiv–xv
,
11–12
,
15
,
47
,
48
,
59

needs, basic bodily
xx
,
14
,
15
,
44
,
56
,
102–4

Nero, Emperor
vii
,
viii–ix

Nile Cataracts
xxii–xxiii
,
110–11

Nomentum (Mentana)
100

Novatilla (Seneca's niece)
25–6

novelty, delight in
8

obstinacy
52

occupatio see
preoccupation

old age
62
,
83

On the Shortness of Life
xx–xxi
,
59–83
;

on preoccupation
xx–xxi
,
65
,
68
,
69
,
70–71
,
71–5
,
78
,
79–80
;
see also
time
, use of

On Tranquillity of Mind
xxi
,
29–58
;

dialogue structure
xxi
;

exempla
xxi
,
49–50
,
55–6
;

tradition
xxi
,
33
,
51
;
see also
tranquillity

oratory
60
;
see also
rhetoric

ostentation
44
,
45
,
55
,
56
,
66
,
72
,
83

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
96

Padua (Patavium)
10

pain of torture
90

Panaetius
xiv
,
xxi

Pantelleria (Cossura)
8

Parthians
14

passions
see
desires

past time
69–70
,
76–7
,
78

Patavium (Padua)
10

patronage
see
clientage

Paul, St
xii
;

spurious correspondence with Seneca
xvi–xviii

Paulinus (praefectus annonae)
59
,
80–81
,
82

Persia
9
,
79
,
110

Petrarch
xviii

Phasis, River
14

phenomena, natural
xxii–xxiii
,
110–13
;
see also
individual types

philosophical background
xiii–xvi

philosophical letter genre
xi–xiii

philosophy
xiii–xvi
;

dispels groundless fears
100–102
;

hypocrisy, charges of
90
;

philosophical letter genre
xi–xii
;

on physical world
xiii
,
xiv
,
107
;

protreptic
xx
,
xxii
,
100–104
,
107–9
;

Roman adaptation of Greek
xiii
,
xiv
;

Seneca not original thinker
xiii
,
xvii
;

Seneca's eclecticism
xiii–xv
;

valuable use of time
75–8
;
see also
Cynics
;

Stoicism;

studies, liberal;

and individual philosophers

Phocians
10

Phoenicians
9

physical world: change in
8–9
;

Natural Questions on
xxii–xxiii
,
110–13
;

philosophy and
xiii
,
xiv
,
107
;

study of
28
,
82

Piso, Gaius Calpurnius;

conspiracy
vii
,
viii

place, exile's change of
xxii
,
7–14
,
19

plague
112
,
113

planets
8
,
9
,
12

Plato
xi
,
xv
,
18
,
58
,
88

Platonism
xv

pleasure, anticipation of
78
,
79

plebs, secession of
75

pneuma (fiery air)
xiv

poetry
58
,
78
;

Seneca's tragedies
ix–x
,
xvi–xvii

‘pointed' style of English prose
xix

politics: preoccupation with
80
;

and writings
vii
,
ix
;
see also
clientage
;
public life

Pollio, Gaius Asinius
57

pomerium
75

Pompeia Paulina
viii

Pompey the Great (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus)
55
,
74–5

Pompey (consul AD
14
)
49

Pontus (Black Sea)
9

popular opinion
7

Porsina
88

pose, assumption of
56

Posidonius
xiv

possessions, private
42–5
;
see also
goods
;
wealth

posterity
x
,
xii–xiii
,
xvi–xix
,
98

poverty
xxii
,
7
,
14–19
,
42
,
44
,
90

praetorship, Seneca's
viii

pregnancy, attitudes to
22

preoccupation and the

preoccupied (occupati)
xx–xxi
,
71–5
;