Seneca

Seneca: Selected Letters

Herausgegeben:Edwards, Catharine

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Produktbeschreibung

The letters of Seneca are uniquely engaging; they offer an urgent guide to Stoic self-improvement but also cast light on Roman attitudes towards slavery, gladiatorial combat and suicide. This edition of a selection elucidates their language, literary style and distinctive approach to philosophy within their historical context.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2019
• Englisch, Latein
• Abmessung: 216mm x 136mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 520g
• ISBN-13: 9780521465830
• ISBN-10: 0521465834
• Artikelnr.: 54849344

Autorenporträt

Elaine Fantham is Giger professor of Latin Emeritus at Princeton University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: 1. Seneca's life and works; 2. The Epistulae Morales and their addressee; 3. Letters as a genre; 4. Stoic terms and concepts; 5. Stoic background; 6. Other philosophical influences; 7. Ethical focus and techniques of the self; 8. Seneca and earlier Latin poetic authors; 9. Senecan style; 10. Clauslae in Seneca; 11. Reception of the letters; 12. The selection; 13. The text; Epistulae Morales: Letter 1; Letter 7; Letter 12; Letter 18; Letter 21; Letter 24; Letter 33; Letter 34; Letter 46; Letter 47; Letter 53; Letter 64; Letter 70; Letter 86; Letter 90; Letter 114; Commentary.