Drunkenness and Philosophical Enthusiasm in Seneca's De Tranquillitate Animi.
The paper revisits Seneca's endorsement of wine-drinking as a remedy for mental anxiety in De Tranquillitate Animi (17.4-12). Although the locus has been often interpreted as Seneca's endorsement of Platonic enthusiasm, we argue that Seneca does not deviate from the Stoic rejection of drunkenness (e...
| Publicado en: | Scripta Classica Israelica Vol. 39; pp. 1 - 20 |
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Israeli Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies
2020
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