Plato

Reading notes

• Consolation to His Mother Helvia §12 Plato three

  The Athenian philosopher (c.428-348 BC); cited as having owned only three slaves.

• Consolation to Marcia §17 even after Plato

  Plato, the Athenian philosopher, whose teaching at the court of Dionysius failed to reform the tyrant; Seneca cites him again in chapter XXIII.

• On Benefits §3.32.3 Plato

  The Athenian philosopher (c. 428–348 BC), here named as the son whose fame preserves his father Ariston.

• On Benefits §4.33.1 Plato

  The Athenian philosopher (c. 428–348 BC); paraphrased here for the maxim that conjecture about the human mind is difficult.

• On Anger §1.6 Plato

  The Athenian philosopher (c. 428–348 BC); Seneca borrows his argument that the good man does no harm, and therefore neither punishes nor grows angry.

• On Tranquility of Mind §7.3 Platos

  Plato (c. 427--347 BC), Socrates' great pupil; 'the Platos and Xenophons' = the choice company the Socratic circle once afforded.

• On Tranquility of Mind §17.10 Plato

  Plato, paraphrased on the poet who knocks in vain at poetry's doors while still master of himself (cf. Phaedrus 245a).

• On the Happy Life §18.1 Plato

  The Athenian philosopher (c. 428-348 BC), founder of the Academy; named among the great thinkers reproached for the gap between their words and their lives.

• Moral Letters to Lucilius §1.6.6 Plato

  Plato (c. 429–347 BC), Socrates' foremost pupil and founder of the Academy.

• Moral Letters to Lucilius §5.44.3 Plato

  Athenian philosopher (c. 427–347 BC), founder of the Academy; Seneca's point is that philosophy, not lineage, conferred his true nobility.

• Moral Letters to Lucilius §108.38 Plato

  Plato of Athens (c. 429–347 BC), the great Academic philosopher.

• Natural Questions §5.18.16 Plato

  The Athenian philosopher (c. 428–348 BC), called as Seneca's closing 'witness' that men buy trifles at the cost of life.