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Published
December 21, 2020
How to Cite
Cuntro’, A. (2020). about the lexicon of vegetarianism in Seneca, epist. 108, 17-22. Una Κοινῇ - Magazine of Studies on the Classic and Its Reception in Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature, (1), 84-99. Retrieved from https://unakoine.it/index.php/unaK/article/view/35
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Abstract
This paper examines Seneca, Epistula 108, 17–22, in which the author explains to Lucilius why in his younger years he followed a vegetarian diet. This passage combines two lexical fields usually employed in other works with different purposes: the anti-tyrannical and the parental language. While the former justifies the adhesion to vegetarianism from an ideological point of view, the latter focuses on its ethical value.