Morte e gênero em Sêneca: um diálogo com os vestígios da cultura material

Abstract

This article aims the understanding of the rela- tionships set between death and gender in the philosophical logos of Lucius Annaeus Seneca, as well as the presence of such relationships in the material culture; in order to do so, Epis- tulae Morales and Ad Marciam de Consolatione will be used. From there, we will make some critial reflections on the femi- nine aristocratic behaviour regarding prolonged mourning, thus, by analysing the practice of virtus, we wil understand the creation of behavioural feminine rules to the public ex- pression of pain and the insertion of more particular and emotional dimensions in the way they reminded of the dead in the Roman imperial court.