What is it about?
Seneca's Natural Questions deal with meteorological matters such as thunders, earthquakes and river floods, in order to give men advices for getting rid of their fear about these natural phaenomena. So, this book has an ethical aim; thus we can find a number of moralistic anectodes within the doxographic argumentation.
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Why is it important?
The relationship between scientific and moralistic issues is a crucial theme nowadays: the ancient perspective can be useful for meditating on it.
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This page is a summary of: Exploring Appearances, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/cco9781139542746.008.
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