Seneca

Name: Seneca
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ISBN: 9780199282098

ISBN-10: 0199282099

ISBN-13: 9780199282098

Edition: 2008

Authors: John G. Fitch

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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 essayswritten 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 andsociety. Several of the essays have been revised by their authors for this volume, and two of them are…

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List price: $91.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/16/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 1.01" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English



Introduction



Imago Vitae Suae




Seneca's Epistles to Lucilius: A Revaluation




Self-scrutiny and Self-transformation in Seneca's Letters




Imagination and Meditation in Seneca: The Example of Praemeditatio




The Will in Seneca the Younger




Boundary Violation and the Landscape of the Self in Senecan Tragedy




Construction of the Self in Senecan Drama




Senecan Tragedy: Back on Stage?




Staging Seneca: The Production of Troas as a Philological Experiment




Seneca's Oedipus: The Drama in the Word




Seneca's Thyestes: The Tragedy with no Women?




The Implied Reader and the Political Argument in Seneca's Apocolocyntosis and De Clementia




Roman Historical Exempla in Seneca




In umbra virtutis. Gloria in the Thought of Seneca the Philosopher




Seneca and Slavery




The Dating of Seneca's Tragedies, with Special Reference to Thyestes




Virgil's Dido and Seneca's Tragic Heroines




Seneca and Renaissance Drama: Ideology and Meaning