Seneca / edited by John G. Fitch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fitch, John G.

Series:

Oxford readings in classical studies.

Oxford readings in classical studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus.

Philosophy, Ancient.

Physical Description:

vi, 438 p.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Summary:

Statesman, dramatist, philosopher, and prose stylist, Seneca was a leading figure in the Roman Empire in the first century AD. This volume is a collection of outstanding articles written about him during the last four decades, with a new introduction which places the articles within the context of recent academic thought and criticism.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

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. Gender and Power in Seneca's Thyestes

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

Acknowledgement

References.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

9780199282098

9780191557743

0191557749

OCLC:

476244723