Intertextuality in Seneca's Philosophical Writings (PDF)

Myrto Garani is Assistant Professor in Latin Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. She is the author of Empedocles Redivivus: Poetry and Analogy in Lucretius (London and New York, 2007) and co-editor with David Konstan of The Philosophizing Muse. The Influence of Greek Philosophy on Roman Poetry, Pierides III (2014). She has also published a number of articles on Empedocles' reception in Latin literature, especially in Ovid's Fasti . Her other publications include articles on Lucretius, Propertius, Ovid and the Pseudo-Vergilian Aetna. She is currently working on a monograph on Seneca's Naturales quaestiones Book 3 and a commentary of Lucretius' De rerum natura 6.

Andreas N. Michalopoulos is Professor of Latin at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He has published extensively on Latin literature of the 1st centuries BC and AD (especially epic, elegy, and drama), he has edited numerous volumes (more recently Dicite, Pierides. Classical Studies in Honour of Stratis Kyriakidis, 2017, with Sophia Papaioannou and Andrew Zissos) and is the author of Ancient Etymologies in Ovid's Metamorphoses: A Commented Lexicon (2001), Ovid, Heroides 16 and 17: Introduction, Text and Commentary (2006), and Ovid, Heroides 20 and 21: Introduction, Text and Commentary (2013). His research interests include Augustan poetry, ancient etymology, Roman drama, the Roman novel, and the modern reception of classical literature.

Sophia Papaioannou is Professor of Latin at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Philology. She is the author of numerous articles and chapters on Augustan literature (especially epic) and on Roman comedy, as well as two books on Ovid: Epic Succession and Dissension: Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.623- 14.582 , and the Reinvention of the Aeneid (2005); and Redesigning Achilles: The 'Recycling' of the Epic Cycle in Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.1- 13.620 (2007); and a collection of papers on