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Seneca The Younger, Letters, 54.4


nanWhat? I say to myself; "does death so often test me? Let it do so; I myself have for a long time tested death." "When?" you ask. Before I was born. Death is non-existence, and I know already what that means. What was before me will happen again after me. If there is any suffering in this state, there must have been such suffering also in the past, before we entered the light of day. As a matter of fact, however, we felt no discomfort then.


Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

4 results
1. Lucretius Carus, On The Nature of Things, 3.972-3.977 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

2. Seneca The Younger, Letters, 6.1-6.2, 7.3, 23.6, 53.2-53.6, 54.5, 65.1, 65.12, 65.15-65.16, 65.24 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

3. Seneca The Younger, Troades, 399 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

4. Eusebius of Caesarea, Preparation For The Gospel, 15.20.6 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)



Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
agnosticism Long (2019) 158
annihilation Long (2019) 158
axiochus Sorabji (2000) 228
catharsis,seneca discounts theatre as using first movement,not emotion Sorabji (2000) 228
chrysippus Gazis and Hooper (2021) 176
death,stoicism Long (2019) 158
death Long (2006) 373
ethics,of stoicism Long (2006) 373
euripides Long (2019) 158
fear of death,of annihilation Sorabji (2000) 228
goodness,good life Long (2006) 373
heidegger,m. Long (2006) 373
honourableness Long (2006) 373
identity,in stoicism Long (2019) 158
lucretius,epicurean,asymmetrical attitude to past and future Sorabji (2000) 228
nature,of human beings Long (2006) 373
normative self or identity Long (2006) 373
past,present,future,asymmetrical attitude to past and future Sorabji (2000) 228
past,present,future,stoics think emotions do not concern past harm or benefit Sorabji (2000) 228
perfection Long (2006) 373
plato Long (2019) 158
plutarch of chaeroneia,middle platonist Sorabji (2000) 228
progress,moral Long (2006) 373
self-knowledge Long (2006) 373
seneca Gazis and Hooper (2021) 176; Long (2006) 373; Long (2019) 158
soul-body relationship,translocation Long (2019) 158
stoic Gazis and Hooper (2021) 176
symmetry arguments Gazis and Hooper (2021) 176; Long (2019) 158
telos,temporality Long (2006) 373
therapy,techniques see esp. Sorabji (2000) 228
therapy Sorabji (2000) 228
zeno of citium,stoic,hence different conception of freedom from emotion(apatheia)' Sorabji (2000) 228