La construcción discursiva de los interlocutores en De Vita Beata de Séneca

Ad Gallionem De Vita Beata (58 AD) is a dialogue of Lucius Annaeus Seneca, whose explicit recipient is his older brother Gallio. Throughout the text, based on the principles of the Stoic doctrine, he raises a morality which exalts pleasure on the basis of the search and conquest of virtue and freedom. Happiness is not a permanent condition of the soul that can be enjoyed throughout life, but a daily challenge. In this paper, we adopt the notion of fictional interlocutor according to Codoner (1997). In considering the strategies employed in the composition of his discourse, we recognize more than one interlocutor: his brother Gallio, the fictional disciple as an assistant and the fictional interlocutor as an adversary. Each participant represents different functions in the semantic and pragmatic macrostructure of this philosophical meditation about happiness