Abstract
Abstract
This concluding chapter briefly gestures toward the ways in which the book’s overall argument might be applied to other Senecan texts, providing as an example Seneca’s Consolation to Marcia. This consolation, addressed to a woman, draws out the gendered implications of Seneca’s investment in affective therapies, illustrating the ways in which a redemption of affect also constitutes a vindication of the feminine. Throughout the letter, Marcia’s gender-ambiguous status as a masculine woman generally serves to exhort readers to overcome their feminine fears and achieve virile self-control. However, certain moments in the letter follow the opposite trajectory, encouraging men to accept their “womanly” emotions, which can prove therapeutically useful.
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Oxford University PressOxford
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