| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; Volume 27 |
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Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v. 27.
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Getting to Goodness: Reflections on Chapter 10 of Brad Inwood, Reading Seneca / Hadot, Ilsetraut -- Seneca on Prolēpsis: Greek Sources and Cicero's Influence / Orlando, Antonello -- Did Seneca Understand Medea? A Contribution to the Stoic Account of Akrasia / Müller, Jörn -- Seneca on Acting against Conscience / Colish, Marcia L. -- Seneca on the Analysis and Therapy of Occurrent Emotions / Kaufman, David H. -- Double Vision and Cross-Reading in Seneca's Epistulae Morales and Naturales Quaestiones / Williams, Gareth D. -- Freedom in Seneca: Some Reflections on the Relationship between Philosophy and Politics, Public and Private Life / Pierini, Rita Degl'Innocenti -- Torture in Seneca's Philosophical Works: Between Justification and Condemnation / Courtil, Jean-Christophe -- Gender-Based Differential Morbidity and Moral Teaching in Seneca's Epistulae morales / Gazzarri, Tommaso -- My Family Tree Goes Back to the Romans: Seneca's Approach to the Family in the Epistulae Morales / Gloyn, Elizabeth -- Honeybee Reading and Self-Scripting: Epistulae Morales 84 / Graver, Margaret R. -- The Philosopher as Craftsman: A Topos between Moral Teaching and Literary Production / Cermatori, Linda -- Sententiae in Seneca / Dinter, Martin T. -- Having the Right to Philosophize: A New Reading of Seneca, De Vita Beata 1.1-6.2 / De Pietro, Matheus -- In Praise of Tubero's Pottery: A Note on Seneca, Ep. 95.72-73 and 98.13 / Berno, Francesca Romana -- Seneca's Letters to Lucilius: Hypocrisy as a Way of Life / Jones, Madeleine -- The Epicurus Trope and the Construction of a "Letter Writer" in Seneca's Epistulae Morales / Wildberger, Jula -- Abbreviations -- Index of Passages Cited -- Index of Modern Authors -- General Index |
| 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 |
| Analysis |
Latin literature |
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Seneca |
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stoicism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
In English; with Latin texts with English translation |
| Subject |
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 55 B.C.-approximately 39 A.D. -- Congresses
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| SUBJECT |
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 55 B.C.-approximately 39 A.D. fast |
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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus Philosophus -65 gnd |
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PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical.
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Philosophie
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wildberger, Jula, 1962- editor.
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Colish, Marcia L.
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| ISBN |
9783110349863 |
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3110349868 |
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