Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Seneca

Fifty Letters of a Roman Stoic
Übersetzer: Graver, Margaret; Long, A a

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Produktbeschreibung

A selection of Seneca's most significant letters that illuminate his philosophical and personal life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: The University of Chicago Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 147mm x 223mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780226782768
• ISBN-10: 022678276X
• Artikelnr.: 62212848

Autorenporträt

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4BCE-65CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, and advisor to Emperor Nero. Margaret Graver is the Aaron Lawrence Professor in Classics at Dartmouth College. Her publications include Cicero on the Emotions: Tusculan Disputations 3 and 4; Stoicism and Emotion ; and, in collaboration with A.A. Long, a complete translation of Seneca's Letters on Ethics. A.A. Long is chancellor's professor of classics emeritus and affiliated professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include Greek Models of Mind and Self and Epictetus: How to be Free.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The life of Seneca
2. The dating of Seneca's tragedies
3. The background of the myth
4. Roman literary influences
5. Dramatic performances
6. Rhetorical elements
7. Aspects of literary craftsmanship
8. Literary and philosophical interpretation
9. The manuscripts and the transmission of the text
10. The influence of Seneca's tragedies and of the Phaedra myth
11. Metre and prosody
Annaei Senecae Phaedra
Commentary
Appendices
Bibliography
Indexes.