Seneca: Good and Bad Conduct

Question 1

“Homoerotic Love and Desire are Rejected…”
Procreation and Submissiveness
1) Quote/Evidence (3)
2) Give Points

Answer 1

1) Quotes/Evidence
Consolations to Helia
* Desire was given to humans “for the propagation of the human race”
* “his sex ought to have saved him from this abuse, will not even his age save him?”

2) *Point -
* Seneca is critical of passive sex with other men

Question 2

“Homoerotic Love and Desire are Rejected…”
Scholar - active and passive
1) Scholar ☘️
2) Quote
3) Link

Answer 2

1) Sharrock
2) “the active penetrator and the passive penetrated.”
3) - Seneca is influenced by predominant factor of Roman Sexuality
where the penetrated = emasculated by submissive role