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- Title
Seneca on Winds: The Art of Anemology in "Natural Questions" 5.
- Authors
Williams, Gareth
- Abstract
The familiar challenge of reconciling the scientific and moralizing aspects of Seneca's "Natural Questions" is here taken up in specific reference to Book 5—on winds. The familiar correlation drawn in Greco-Roman literature between wind and aspects of human character suggestively influences Seneca's procedure, in that his depiction of, for example, the uncontrolled violence of whirlwind offers an analogy for the human waywardness portrayed in the moralizing portions of the book. His broader systematization of the winds has important symbolic implications for moral limit and self-control at the human level. Seneca's experimental, highly "literary" mode of physico-moral investigation is thus to be distinguished from the narrower, more strictly technical focus that prevails earlier in the anemology tradition.
- Subjects
NATURAL Questions (Book); GRECO-Roman civilization; WHIRLWINDS; WINDS in literature; CHARACTER in literature
- Publication
American Journal of Philology, 2005, Vol 126, Issue 3, p417
- ISSN
0002-9475
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/ajp.2005.0046