The Influence of Senecan Works and Stoicism on Racinian Tragedy

17世纪法国剧作家让·拉辛被认为是通过人文主义教育熟悉了以塞涅卡为代表的新斯多葛主义。但拉辛似乎采取了一种反斯多葛主义的态度，强调控制激情的困难或不可能。另一方面，拉辛赋予他的主人公以反身意识，这与我们在塞涅卡的《英雄》中所看到的是相似的。可以说，拉辛对塞涅卡的接待是有意识的、批判性的。

17th century French dramatist Jean Racine is supposed to have been familiar, through Humanistic education, with Neo-stoicism represented by Seneca. But Racine seems to adopt an anti-stoic attitude by stressing upon difficulty or impossibility of controlling passions. On the other hand, Racine endows his main characters with reflexive consciousness, comparable with that we find in Seneca's Heroes. We can say that Racine's reception of Seneca was conscious and critical.