La moderación de las pasiones o indicios de estoicismo en Las troyanas de Séneca

Abstract

We propose that in the dramatic play The Troades of Seneca the Young are arguments and ideas belonging to the stoic philosophy that analyze emotions and passions. Such ideas, derived from the ethical-epistemological stoic theory, are inserted on the speeches of characters like Hecuba, Andromache, Agamemnon or Helen. Seneca exhibits the history-myth of the Trojan War as a source of erroneous emotions, that is, of passions that remove happiness-virtue from the characters. Consequently the author presents us speeches, spoken by his characters, which urge to stoically avoid such passions like excessive fear, pain or pride.