Athens

Reading notes

• The Pumpkinification of the Divine Claudius §8 Athens

  The Greek city, cited as half-tolerating brother–sister marriage.

• Consolation to His Mother Helvia §13 At Athens Aristides

  Athens, the leading city of classical Greece; setting of the Aristides and Socrates anecdotes.

• Consolation to Marcia §17 Athens

  Chief city of Greece; Seneca alludes to the Athenian disaster at Syracuse (413 BC), when captives were penned in the quarries.

• On Benefits §6.38.1 Athens

  The chief city of Greece, scene of Demades condemnation of the funeral-profiteer.

• On Anger §3.11 Athenians

  The people of Athens, over whom Pisistratus held tyranny.

• On Tranquility of Mind §5.1 Athenians

  Athens under the Thirty Tyrants (404 BC); Seneca's example of a city at its most wretched, yet not without a Socrates in its midst.

• Moral Letters to Lucilius §6.58.31 Athens

  The chief city of Greece and home of Plato's Academy; the magi visiting there are said to have sacrificed to Plato as more than human for dying at the perfect age of eighty-one (nine times nine).

• Moral Letters to Lucilius §14.90.6 Athens

  The chief city of Attica, founded 'on equal justice' by Solon.

• Moral Letters to Lucilius §104.8 Athens

  The chief city of Greece and a by-word for culture and philosophy.

• Hercules (Mad) §1386 My own land

  Theseus's Athens, which offers Hercules cleansing, the land wont to make even the gods innocent.

• Natural Questions §5.17.5 Athens

  The Greek city; the sciron is the wind named for it.

• Phaedra §1275 Mopsopia

  An old poetic name for Attica and Athens.