Essays on Seneca
Published on 1. May 1993
Book
Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-3-631-45687-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book consists of twenty-one essays on the Stoic Philosopher, Lucius Annaeus Seneca. As author of epigrams, plays, treatises, dialogues, and letters, he has bequeathed to us an extraordinarily large and varied body of literature. This volume deals with some of his major philosophic concepts as well as with his artistry, his style, his irony, his paradoxes, and his wit. The authors wish to portray the erudition, the humanitas, and the deep psychological understanding of the Cordoban Philosopher. In recent decades, Seneca has been receiving much attention and approbation. He is the subject of on-going re-evaluation and renaissance. It is hoped that these essays will give the reader greater insight into Seneca the Man, the Philosopher, the Artist.
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Persons
The Authors: Anna Lydia Motto is Professor of Classics at the University of South Florida in Tampa. She received her Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina, where she held a Fellowship. She is the recipient of a number of awards. She has published five books and about eighty articles on Seneca.
John R. Clark is a Professor of English at the University of South Florida. He received his Ph.D. from the Universtiy of Michigan where he was a Fellow. He has published on Seneca, satire, and other subjects. Both authors have been residents at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.
John R. Clark is a Professor of English at the University of South Florida. He received his Ph.D. from the Universtiy of Michigan where he was a Fellow. He has published on Seneca, satire, and other subjects. Both authors have been residents at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.
Content
Contents: Senecan Style - Some of the recurrent themes in the Philosopher's writings - Progress, time, adversity, idleness, drunkeness, poverty, women's liberation - Epistulae Morales (Ep. 55, Ep. 60, Ep. 62) - De Tranquillitate Animi and the Apocolocyptosis - Seneca and Vergil - Senecan tragedy - The topic of the tradition of exile in Rome and Seneca's exile.