@inbook{8c0beb3fe5624423a82f7bb38eeacfa4,
title = "Vitae aut vocis ambigua: Seneca the younger and ambiguity",
abstract = "My paper demonstrates that Seneca's understanding of ambiguity is both indebted to his Stoic predecessors and an innovative contribution to defining and explaining ambiguity. In his Epistulae Morales, Seneca moves away from an understanding of ambiguity that is primarily based on language, and focuses on the idea of an ambiguous reality, describing human behaviour and life itself as ambiguous. A close reading of Ep. 9 and 45 shows the great importance Seneca attaches to discovering and understanding the ambiguity inherent in life and brings it into line with his treatment of logic, one of the three constitutive elements of Stoic philosophy.",
keywords = "Epistulae morales, Letters, Philosophy, Seneca the younger, Stoicism",
author = "Janja Soldo",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston. All rights reserved.",
year = "2021",
month = feb,
day = "22",
doi = "10.1515/9783110715811-019",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783110715415",
series = "Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes",
publisher = "De Gruyter",
pages = "285--296",
editor = "V{\"o}hler, {Martin } and Fuhrer, {Therese } and Frangoulidis, {Stavros }",
booktitle = "Strategies of Ambiguity in Ancient Literature",
}