In 124 epistles Seneca (c. 4-65 CE) writes to Lucilius, occasionally about technical problems of philosophy, but more often in a relaxed style about moral and ethical questions, relating them to personal experiences. He thus presents a Stoic philosopher's thoughts about the good…
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"C. A.J. Littlewood approaches Seneca's tragedies more as Neronian literature than as Roman reworkings of Attic drama. In both literary and ethical aspects the tragedies are products of the Neronian age and primarily of a Latin literary tradition. It is a feature of Neronian lit…
"C. A.J. Littlewood approaches Seneca's tragedies more as Neronian literature than as Roman reworkings of Attic drama. In both literary and ethical aspects the tragedies are products of the Neronian age and primarily of a Latin literary tradition. It is a feature of Neronian lit…
"This book provides an extensive philological commentary on Seneca's Troades. Its main purpose is to elaborate on the meaning of the single words, and to offer further insight on their history and usage. In this text, comparisons are made with Senecan prose and works of other po…
This text examines the literary and philosophical qualities essential to Seneca's art of science in his 'Natural Questions'. Seneca's meteorological theme raises our gaze from a terrestrial level to a higher, more intuitive plane.
La 4e de couverture indique : "This book is the first extensive study of the role of the family in the work of Seneca. It offers a new way of reading philosophy that combines philosophical analysis with social, cultural and historical factors to bring out the ways in which Stoic…
A volume which explores in detail Seneca's 'De Beneficiis'. Divided into three sections, it looks at the historical and philosophical context of the work, its relation to Seneca's other texts, and concludes with a detailed synopsis of each book, accompanied by notes in commentar…
"The Roman statesman, philosopher and playwright Lucius Annaeus Seneca dramatically influenced the progression of Western thought. His works have had an unparalleled impact on the development of ethical theory, shaping a code of behavior for dealing with tyranny in his own age t…
"In Brill's Companion to the Reception of Senecan Tragedy, Eric Dodson-Robinson incorporates essays by specialists working across disciplines and national literatures into a subtle narrative tracing the diverse scholarly, literary and theatrical receptions of Seneca's tragedies.…