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In the final extant letter of his Epistulae Morales, Seneca the Younger attributes the human good to the work of cura, “care” or “concern,” before abruptly discussing how humans, unique among animals, have access to future time. This dissertation argues that Seneca’s distinctive…

“Pax Christi: Romans as Protrepsis to Live as Kings” is an interdisciplinary study of Paul's Letter to the Romans that reads the whole anew as a [special characters omitted]. For over a century, protrepsis has been defined almost univocally as a philosophic exhortation to take u…