Lucius Annaeus Seneca, De tranquillitate animi [On peace of mind]

Myrto Garani (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

Ed. by Sophia Papaioannou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.1.2: Ancient Roman Writing and Culture (Republic and Empire), -750-476.
Vol. editors: Anca Dan (École Practique de Hautes Études PSL), Martine Diepenbroek (University of Johannesburg), William John Dominik (University of Otago), Giacomo Fedeli (University of Exeter), Victoria Fendel (University of Oxford), Thomas Habinek (University of Southern California), Emily Kneebone (University of Nottingham), Elodie Paillard (University of Sydney), Sophia Papaioannou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Guendalina Daniela Maria Taietti (University of Liverpool), Jula Wildberger (American University of Paris)

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Philosophy (any)

Dates

First circulation or publication 61 - 62

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Ancient Rome (Republic & Empire) (Country of Origin)

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This treatise forms part of Seneca’s

Dialogi

, a corpus of ten treatises which are preserved in Codex Ambrosianus C 90 inf. (= A), an eleventh century manuscript which was copied at the abbey of Monte Casino. Along with this main source, there is also a considerable number of later manuscripts, from the fourteenth century on, which are of lesser and debatable value (Reynolds 1968). The addressee of this treatise is Annaeus Serenus, who held the office of

praefectus vigilum

under Nero (Pliny

22.96) and by the time the treatise was written was a fully-fledged Stoic. That is why this treatise is believed to have been written after

ConstantiaSapientis

– in which Serenus is still an adherent to Epicureanism – and before the death of Serenus, probably in 61/2 CE. This is the only…

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Citation: Garani, Myrto. "De tranquillitate animi". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 28 August 2013 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35050, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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