Seeing Seneca whole : perspectives on philosophy, poetry, and politics / edited by Katharina Volk and Gareth D. Williams.

Format:

Book

Series:

Columbia studies in the classical tradition ; v. 28.

Columbia studies in the classical tradition, 0166-1302 ; v. 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stoics--Congresses.

Stoics.

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D--Congresses.

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume contains ten essays by an international group of scholars on various aspects of the work of L. Annaeus Seneca the Younger, the famous (some would say, notorious) Roman playwright, philosopher, and politician of the Claudian and Neronian periods. Approaching Seneca from a number of different angles, the authors endeavor both to illuminate individual aspects of the writer's enormous output and to discern common themes among the many different genres practiced by Seneca. Given its interdisciplinary approach, the collection is of interest to classicists, historians, and historians of philosophy alike.

Contents:

""TABLE OF CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS""; ""LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS""; ""INTRODUCTION

- Katharina Volk and Gareth D. Williams""; ""SEEING SENECA WHOLE?

- Richard Tarrant""; ""SENECA, MAN OF MANY GENRES

- James Ker""; ""SENECA ON MORAL THEORYAND MORAL IMPROVEMENT

- John M. Cooper""; ""ANGER, PRESENT INJUSTICE ANDFUTURE REVENGE IN SENECA�S DE IRA

- Katja Maria Vogt""; ""SENECA AND THE STOIC THEORY OF COGNITION:SOME PRELIMINARY REMARKS

- Jula Wildberger""; ""LEARNING HOW TO DIE: SENECA�S USEOF AENEID 4.653 AT EPISTULAE MORALES 12.9

- Wolfgang-Rainer Mann""

""JOURNEY OF A LIFETIME: SENECA, EPISTLE 57 IN BOOK VI IN EM

- John Henderson""""STATES OF EXILE, STATES OF MIND: PARADOX AND REVERSAL IN SENECA�S CONSOLATIO AD HELVIAM MATREM

- Gareth D. Williams""; ""ELITE SCEPTICISM IN THE APOCOLOCYNTOSIS: FURTHER QUALIFICATIONS

- Spencer Cole""; ""COSMIC DISRUPTION IN SENECA�S THYESTES: TWO WAYS OF LOOKING AT AN ECLIPSE

- Katharina Volk""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""PASSAGES CITED""; ""INDEX""

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

International conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-211) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-281-39874-8

9786611398743

90-474-0936-1

OCLC:

923613210

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047409366 DOI