Note 588 — Chapter III · SENECA THE PHILOSOPHER: MISCELLANEOUS LEARNING
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Text: Prose wks., ed. pr., Nap., 1475; Erasmus, Bas., 1515, 1529; Lipsius, Antw., 1605, 1615; Ruhkopf, Lpz., 1797-1811; Haase, Lpz., 1852 sq.; later Teubner ed., Vol. I. 1, Dialog., Hermes, 1905; I. 2, De Ben., De Clem., Hosius, 1900; II., Nat. Quaest., Gercke, 1907; III., Epist., Hense, 1898, 1914; IV., Frag., Bickel. Sep. edns., De Ben., Gertz., Berl., 1876; Dial., Gertz, Copenh., 1886; Dial., X., XI., XII., J. D. Duff, Camb., 1915; De Otio, Waltz, Par., 1909; Ad Helu., Favez, Laus., 1918; Select Letters, Summers, Lond., 1910; Ep. Mor., Beltrami, Brescia, 1916; Loeb. ed. (w. trans.), Gummere, Lond. and New Yk., 1917-1920; De Clem., Préchac, Par., 1921.
Tragedies and satire: see next chapter.
Transns.: Prose Wks., Lodge, Lond., 1614. On Benefits; also Minor Dial. and Clem., Stewart, Lond., 1889; Quaest. Nat. (Physical Science in Time of Nero), Clarke and Geikie, Lond., 1910.
Chronology of Wks.: Jonas, De Ordine librorum Sen., Berl., 1870; Schanz, op. cit.; Gercke, Seneca-Studien, Lpz., 1895.
Life: Waltz, La Vie politique de S., Par., 1909.
Philosophy: (General) Zeller, Die Philos. d. Griechen; Martha, Les moralistes sous l’empire romain; Boissier, La religion romaine d’Auguste aux Antonins; Schiller, op. cit.; Arnold, Roman Stoicism, Camb., 1911; (Special) Corsi, Lo stoicismo romano ... particolarmente in Sen., Prato, 1884; Levy-Bruhl, Quid de deo Sen. senserit, Par., 1884; Weissenfels, De Sen. Epicureo, Berl., 1886; Rubin, Die Ethik Sen. in ihr Verhält. z. älter. u. mittler. Stoa, Berl., 1892; Burnier, La Morale de S. et le Néo-stoïcisme, Laus., 1908; Gummere, S. the Philosr. and his modern Message, Bost., Mass., 1922.
Literary Qualities: Hoppe, Ueber d. Sprache des Philos. Sen. (syntactical), Lauban, 1873; Weber, De Sen. philos. dicendi genere Bioneo, Marb., 1895; Kunz, Sentenzen in S.’s Tragoedien zusammengestellt, Wienerneust., 1897; Nottola, La prosa di S., Bergamo, 1904; Merchant, S., his theory of style, Amer. Jrnl. Philol., 26 (1905); Norden, Kunstprosa, etc., p. 311; Bourgery, Sénèque Prosateur, Par., 1922; Albertini, La Composition dans les ouvrages philosophiques de S., Par., 1923.
For recent lit. on Seneca, Münscher in Bursian’s Jahresb., Lpz., 1923, pp. 109-214.