The Empire of the Self: Self-Command and Political Speech in Seneca and Petronius

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Index Accius, 133–35 actors, 67, 119, 135 Aeacus, 135, 154, 156 Aegisthus, 62, 69–70, 72–73, 74, 83, 90, 223n54 Aeneas, 2, 94–95, 113, 215n3, 218n10, 239n31 Agamemnon (in Senecan tragedy), 69, 72 Agamemnon (scholar in the Satyricon), 53, 98, 183–84 Agrippa, 32, 33, 47, 265n16 Agrippina, 137, 146, 149, 254n8 Alexander the Great, 25–26, 32, 211, 252n81 anathymiasis, 17, 111–12, 161–63, 186, 188, 262n115 anima, 163–64, 167–68 animus. See soul apodixis, 96 apostrophe, 15, 65, 69, 79, 83; and agency, 232n47, 234n65; to animus, 50–51, 55–56, 73, 76, 77, 81, 227n1, 231n37; to body, 211–12; as natural language, 97; Pompey’s self-apostrophe, 56–58; Quintilian’s definition of, 54 appearances, 11, 245n8; difficulty interpreting , 118, 121–25, 130, 156, 179, 193; of virtue and vice, 119, 124, 158, 164 Aristotle, 38–39, 44, 162, 220n27; on bees, 245n17; on greatness of soul, 133–34; on humor, 145 Ascyltus, 14, 108, 109, 187, 213, 271n106 asthma, 141, 166–67 Atreus, 16, 62, 63, 65, 69, 75–77, 83, 90, 243n107, 266n25; in Accius, 135; and cannibalism, 112, 144; surpassed by Eumolpus, 101; surpassed by Medea, 82 Auerbach, Erich, 194, 235n8, 249n51, 267n40 Augustine, 85, 101, 235n3 Augustus, 117, 127, 137; in Apocolocyntosis, 150, 153–54, 156, 164; and Maecenas, 177, 266n28 autobiography, 2, 9, 200, 213 autocracy, 2, 26, 117–18, 128, 130, 213 autocrats, 122, 130; individual as, 182–83; language and psychology of, 127–28, 133; language of, 125–30 Baiae, 1, 23–24, 32, 86, 166 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 8, 98, 150, 263n127 Bartsch, Shadi, 119, 188, 222n51, 242n88, 242n89 baths, 84, 86, 106, 109, 171, 210, 238n29 bees, 120–21, 122–23, 143, 155, 156, 180, 245n15, 245n17; discussed by Trimalchio, 186–87; as model for reading and writing, 184–85, 212, 268n50 belching, 144–45 blushing, 192, 250n61 body, 8, 14, 93, 97, 104, 110, 111; destroyed by passions, 182; fragility of, 107, 183, 239n44; hides virtus, 193; as literary work of art, 185; political relationship with soul, 118, 121, 125, 131, 139, 143, 156, 181; of slaves, 202 Brutus, Lucius Junius, 142 Brutus, Marcus Junius, 203 Burrus, 5, 131, 149 Caesar, Julius, 24, 30, 32–34, 36, 47, 117, 128–30, 149, 203 296 Index Caligula, 13, 127, 138; in Apocolocyntosis, 157, 158, 164; assassination of, 136, 252n91; as Atreus, 135 Campania, 12–13, 24, 84, 86, 87, 139, 166, 167–68, 184, 215n3 cannibalism, 69, 98–105, 109, 113 capital punishment, 122, 126, 131, 153–54, 156; of parricides, 123–24 captatores, 92, 98, 100–103, 112, 122, 207, 212, 235n27, 242n78; in Latin literature, 99; Seneca on, 100 carnival, 7–8, 17, 98, 99, 111, 142, 150, 164, 260n94 castration, 94–95 catarrh, 141, 167–68 Cato the Elder, 203 Cato the Younger, 2, 14, 17, 24, 28, 33–34, 49, 149, 243n98; compared with Senecan tragedy, 63, 69, 83, 234n60; last words and suicide, 50–52, 53, 59, 65, 73, 252n93; wealth of, 200 Catullus, 89, 91, 237n21, 237n22 Celsus, 162, 260n92 Chrysanthus, 102, 242n76 Chrysippus, 38, 197, 228n7, 242n78 Chrysis, 93, 94, 239n44, 269n76 Cicero, 29–30, 45, 99, 107, 109, 135; on Mark Antony, 144, 257n42; on Julius Caesar, 129–30; on first movements, 191; on humor, 145–46, 255n26; in Satyricon, 184; on soul’s nature, 165–66; on Stoics’ views of obscenity, 146 Cinnamus, 204–6 Circe, 91, 92–93, 94 civil war (Roman), 9, 33, 56–58, 105, 128–30, 220n39; Croton as, 92, 99; and Maecenas, 178 classical body, 164 Claudius, 17, 123–24, 127, 139, 242n77; archetypal nature of, 142; as empty gourd, 260n94; in Hades, 154, 156, 169; judgments of, 153–54; last words, 141–44, 160, 163–64; linked with Seneca, 161, 166, 168, 261n105; linked with Trimalchio, 161, 167–69, 212, 256n29; and Nero, 143; physical appearance of, 141–42, 156, 160, 180 Cleanthes, 162, 190 Clementia. See mercy clients, 205–6 Clytemnestra, 16, 62, 65, 70–72, 83, 90 coins, 175, 195, 244n2, 246n25, 257n42, 265n20; gold, 204–5 comedy, 3, 12, 14, 139, 143, 164, 187, 207, 213 commands, 103; military, 26–27, 29, 47; of nature, 26, 33; of the passions, 41–47; of the soul, 36–41; self-directed, 27, 47–52, 60–61, 97, 211–12 Constantia, 13, 14; of Encolpius, 88, 91, 159; of Medea, 80–81; of Petronius, 13; in Senecan drama, 63, 65, 66, 67, 68, 73, 74, 83 constitution (political...