| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 438 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Oxford readings in classical studies
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Oxford readings in classical studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-438). |
| Contents |
Imago vitae suae / Miriam T. Griffin -- Seneca's epistles to Lucilius: a revaluation / Marcus Wilson -- Self-scrutiny and self-transformation in Seneca's letters / Catharine Edwards -- Imagination and meditation in Seneca: the example of praemeditatio / Mireille Armisen-Marchetti -- The will in Seneca the Younger / Brad Inwood -- Boundary violation and the landscape of the self in Senecan tragedy / Charles Segal -- Construction of the self in Senecan drama / John G. Fitch and Siobhan McElduff -- Senecan tragedy: back on stage? / Patrick Kragelund -- Staging Seneca: the production of Troas as a philological experiment / Wilfried Stroh -- Seneca's Oedipus: the drama in the word / Donald J. Mastronarde -- Gender and power in Seneca's Thyestes / Cedric Littlewood -- The implied reader and the political argument in Seneca's Apocolocyntosis and De Clementia / Eleanor Winsor Leach -- Roman historical exempla in Seneca / Roland G. Mayer -- In umbra virtutis: gloria in the thought of Seneca the philosopher / Robert J. Newman -- Seneca and slavery / K.R. Bradley -- The dating of Seneca's tragedies, with special reference to Thyestes / R.G.M. Nisbet -- Virgil's Dido and Seneca's tragic heroines / Elaine Fantham -- Seneca and Renaissance drama: ideology and meaning / A.J. Boyle. |
| Summary |
Statesman, dramatist, philosopher, and prose stylist, Seneca was a leading figure in the Roman Empire in the first century AD. This volume is a collection of outstanding articles written about him during the last four decades, with a new introduction which places the articles within the context of recent academic thought and criticism. - ;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 bring. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D. |
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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Fitch, John G.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Seneca. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008 9780199282098 0199282099 (DLC) 2007033022 (OCoLC)163708157 |
| ISBN |
9780191557743 (electronic book) |
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0191557749 (electronic book) |
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9781435633483 (electronic book) |
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1435633482 (electronic book) |
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9780199282098 |
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0199282099 |
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9780199282081 |
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0199282080 |
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1281370207 |
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9781281370204 |
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0199282080 (Cloth) |
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0199282099 (Paper) |
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