Screen LibrarySeneca philosophus /
Addressing classicists, philosophers, students, and general readers alike, this volume emphasizes the unity of Seneca s work and his originality as a translator of Stoic ideas in the literary forms of imperial Rome. It features a vitalizing diversity of contributors from different generations, disci...
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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2014] ©2014 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Trends in classics - supplementary volumes;
27 |
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| Online Access: |
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| Summary: |
Addressing classicists, philosophers, students, and general readers alike, this volume emphasizes the unity of Seneca s work and his originality as a translator of Stoic ideas in the literary forms of imperial Rome. It features a vitalizing diversity of contributors from different generations, disciplines, and research cultures. Prominent Seneca scholars publishing in other languages are for the first time made accessible to anglophone readers. |
| Carrier Form: |
1 online resource (vi, 512 pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9783110349863 |
| Index Number: | B618 |
| CLC: | B017 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Getting to Goodness: Reflections on Chapter 10 of Brad Inwood, Reading Seneca / Seneca on Prol psis: Greek Sources and Cicero s Influence / Did Seneca Understand Medea? A Contribution to the Stoic Account of Akrasia / Seneca on Acting against Conscience / Seneca on the Analysis and Therapy of Occurrent Emotions / Double Vision and Cross-Reading in Seneca s Epistulae Morales and Naturales Quaestiones / Freedom in Seneca: Some Reflections on the Relationship between Philosophy and Politics, Public and Private Life / Torture in Seneca s Philosophical Works: Between Justification and Condemnation / Gender Based Differential Morbidity and Moral Teaching in Seneca s Epistulae morales / My Family Tree Goes Back to the Romans: Seneca s Approach to the Family in the Epistulae Morales / Honeybee Reading and Self-Scripting: Epistulae Morales 84 / The Philosopher as Craftsman: A Topos between Moral Teaching and Literary Production / Sententiae in Seneca / Having the Right to Philosophize: A New Reading of Seneca, De Vita Beata 1.1 6.2 / In Praise of Tubero s Pottery: A Note on Seneca, Ep. 95.72 73 and 98.13 / Seneca s Letters to Lucilius: Hypocrisy as a Way of Life / The Epicurus Trope and the Construction of a "Letter Writer" in Seneca s Epistulae Morales / Abbreviations -- Index of Passages Cited -- Index of Modern Authors -- General Index. |