Seneca Scholarship

• What did Fisher believe about Seneca?

  "We can have no more certainty that Seneca actually followed his own moral teaching than we can have about any person from antiquity."
• What did Motto believe influenced Seneca's depiction of marriage?

  "Seneca’s ability to depict this human passion so vividly stems from his own good fortune to have experienced this emotion to the fullest extent in his own life."
• How did Motto believe Seneca viewed true love?

  As "analogous to an ideal friendship."
• How did Kreitner believe Seneca viewed friendship?

  "Seneca, believed that true friendship could only be experienced by someone who is completely detached from dependence on the outside, as only once you detach from all desires can you build a genuinely selfless connection with another person."
• How did Kreitner believe the Stoics viewed sex?

  "The Stoics held that sexual intercourse is the very antithesis of reason and therefore should be avoided."
• How did Gloyn believe Seneca viewed desire?

  "Seneca deplores those relationships where amor has turned to affectus, because reason has been lost."
• How did Gloyn believe the Stoics viewed homoerotic love?

  "The early Stoics also seem to have been very comfortable with same-sex love, provided of course that it came from a mutual appreciation of each other’s virtue."