Main description: 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...
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Main description: 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. Biographical note: Jula Wildberger, The American University of Paris, France; Marcia L. Colish, Yale University, New Haven, USA. 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
Table of Contents; Introduction; Getting to Goodness: Reflections on Chapter 10 of Brad Inwood, Reading Seneca; Seneca on Prolepsis: 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 CondemnationGender-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 LifeThe 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
Main description: 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...
mehr
Main description: 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. Biographical note: Jula Wildberger, The American University of Paris, France; Marcia L. Colish, Yale University, New Haven, USA. 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
Table of Contents; Introduction; Getting to Goodness: Reflections on Chapter 10 of Brad Inwood, Reading Seneca; Seneca on Prolepsis: 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 CondemnationGender-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 LifeThe 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
