Natura

Nature personified as lawgiver; her fixed laws are overturned in Oedipus alone, the entrails turned inside out.

Reading notes

On Leisure §5.3 Nature
Natura, personified as a maker conscious of her own art who fashions man upright and curious so as to be a spectator of the cosmos; in Stoic thought she is identical with the divine reason ordering the world.
Moral Letters to Lucilius §1.3.6 nature
Natura, the divine ordering principle of Stoicism, here invoked as a counselor who 'made both day and night' — proof that rest and action must alternate.
Oedipus §1 Nature
Nature personified as lawgiver, whose fixed laws Oedipus says he tried to keep safe.

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