It is simply to him, the way in which the world is orchestrated. Not only can a person, at any given time, be placed under the whip of another (a creditor, a lover, or a king) but they may also willing fetter their lives to their greed, passions and ambitions. No matter the twists and turns, every person is bound to the subjugation of Fortuna (47.1). Nonetheless, Seneca bisects human slavery into two distinguishable categories. The first type of slavery is familiariter, which is well depicted by the slavery Lucilius engages in (47.1) and in the familial slavery of ancestral Rome (47.14). Here,
It is simply to him, the way in which the world is orchestrated. Not only can a person, at any given time, be placed under the whip of another (a creditor, a lover, or a king) but they may also willing fetter their lives to their greed, passions and ambitions. No matter the twists and turns, every person is bound to the subjugation of Fortuna (47.1). Nonetheless, Seneca bisects human slavery into two distinguishable categories. The first type of slavery is familiariter, which is well depicted by the slavery Lucilius engages in (47.1) and in the familial slavery of ancestral Rome (47.14). Here,