Seneca
Published on 7. February 2008
Book
Hardback
446 pages
978-0-19-928208-1 (ISBN)
Description
Seneca was a man of many facets: statesman, dramatist, philosopher, prose stylist. His life was marked by extremes of fortune - extremes that are reflected in much of his writing, and in the vicissitudes of his reputation in later centuries. This volume brings together some outstanding essays written about him over the past four decades, and illustrates the diversity of approaches by which modern critics have attempted to understand this multifaceted figure. Just as Seneca's writings often reflect his times, so current critical approaches often reflect issues in contemporary thought and society. Several of the essays have been revised by their authors for this volume, and two of them are translated for the first time. A new introduction places the articles within the context of recent academic thought and criticism. All Latin has been translated.
Reviews / Votes
This collection of essays does an excellent job of making Seneca a more accessible author for first-time readers, and it will prove an essential resource for more advanced Senecan scholars.... these essays comprise a necessary and very useful starting point for anyone interested in Senecan study; they also provide for novice students myriad access points for reading beyond the surface of any Senecan work. * Lisl Walsh, The Classical Outlook *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Scholars and students of classics, especially of ancient philosophy, Roman drama, Latin prose writing, and the history of the Roman Empire
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
756 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-928208-1 (9780199282081)
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Person
John G. Fitch is Professor Emeritus, Department of Greek & Roman Studies, University of Victoria.
Content
Introduction ; 1. Imago Vitae Suae ; 2. Seneca's Epistles to Lucilius: A Revaluation ; 3. Self-scrutiny and Self-transformation in Seneca's Letters ; 4. Imagination and Meditation in Seneca: The Example of Praemeditatio ; 5. The Will in Seneca the Younger ; 6. Boundary Violation and the Landscape of the Self in Senecan Tragedy ; 7. Construction of the Self in Senecan Drama ; 8. Senecan Tragedy: Back on Stage? ; 9. Staging Seneca: The Production of Troas as a Philological Experiment ; 10. Seneca's Oedipus: The Drama in the Word ; 11. Seneca's Thyestes: The Tragedy with no Women? ; 12. The Implied Reader and the Political Argument in Seneca's Apocolocyntosis and De Clementia ; 13. Roman Historical Exempla in Seneca ; 14. In umbra virtutis. Gloria in the Thought of Seneca the Philosopher ; 15. Seneca and Slavery ; 16. The Dating of Seneca's Tragedies, with Special Reference to Thyestes ; 17. Virgil's Dido and Seneca's Tragic Heroines ; 18. Seneca and Renaissance Drama: Ideology and Meaning