Seneca

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-928209-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 446 Seiten, Format (B × H): 139 mm x 217 mm, Gewicht: 555 g

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 brings together some outstanding essays written about him over the past four decades, and illustrates the diversity of approaches by which modern critics have attempted to understand this multifaceted figure. Just as Seneca's writings often reflect his times, so current critical approaches often reflect issues in contemporary thought and society. Several of the essays have been revised by their authors for this volume, and two of them are translated for the first time. A new introduction places the articles within the context of recent academic thought and criticism. All Latin has been translated.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of classics, especially of ancient philosophy, Roman drama, Latin prose writing, and the history of the Roman Empire

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fitch, John G.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Lateinische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- 1: Miriam T. Griffin: Imago Vitae Suae

- 2: Marcus Wilson: Seneca's Epistles to Lucilius: A Revaluation

- 3: Catharine Edwards: Self-scrutiny and Self-transformation in Seneca's Letters

- 4: Mireille Armisen-Marchetti: Imagination and Meditation in Seneca: The Example of Praemeditatio

- 5: Brad Inwood: The Will in Seneca the Younger

- 6: Charles Segal: Boundary Violation and the Landscape of the Self in Senecan Tragedy

- 7: John G. Fitch and Siobhan McElduff: Construction of the Self in Senecan Drama

- 8: Patrick Kragelund: Senecan Tragedy: Back on Stage?

- 9: Wilfried Stroh: Staging Seneca: The Production of Troas as a Philological Experiment

- 10: Donald J. Mastronarde: Seneca's Oedipus: The Drama in the Word

- 11: Cedric Littlewood: Seneca's Thyestes: The Tragedy with no Women?

- 12: Eleanor Winsor Leach: The Implied Reader and the Political Argument in Seneca's Apocolocyntosis and De Clementia

- 13: Roland G. Mayer: Roman Historical Exempla in Seneca

- 14: Robert J. Newman: In umbra virtutis. Gloria in the Thought of Seneca the Philosopher

- 15: K. R. Bradley: Seneca and Slavery

- 16: R. G. M. Nisbet: The Dating of Seneca's Tragedies, with Special Reference to Thyestes

- 17: Elaine Fantham: Virgil's Dido and Seneca's Tragic Heroines

- 18: A. J. Boyle: Seneca and Renaissance Drama: Ideology and Meaning

Über Autor(innen)

John G. Fitch is Professor Emeritus, Department of Greek & Roman Studies, University of Victoria.