The Cambridge Companion to Seneca
$90.60
- Paperback
378 pages
- Release Date
16 February 2015
Summary
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 that endures today.
This Companion thoroughly examines the complete Senecan corpus, with special emphasis on the aspects of his writings that have challenged interpretation. The authors place Seneca in the conte…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781107694217 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1107694213 |
| Author: | Shadi Bartsch, Alessandro Schiesaro |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 378 |
| Release Date: | 16 February 2015 |
| Weight: | 510g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 150mm x 22mm |
| Series: | Cambridge Companions to Literature |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
‘… [a] wonderful volume … Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.’ A. M. Busch, Choice
‘… [a] wonderful volume … Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.’ A. M. Busch, Choice‘The Cambridge Companion to Seneca is a remarkable achievement, which has much to offer to advanced students and confirmed scholars looking for useful syntheses and suggestive, in-depth interpretations of the many aspects of this dazzling corpus.’ François Prost, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
About The Author
Shadi Bartsch
About the Authors
Shadi Bartsch is Helen A. Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Decoding the Ancient Novel: The Reader and the Role of Description in Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius (1989); Actors in the Audience: Theatricality and Doublespeak from Nero to Hadrian (1994); Ideology in Cold Blood: A Reading of Lucan’s Civil War (1998); The Mirror of the Self: Sexuality, Self-Knowledge, and the Gaze in the Early Roman Empire (2006); and the forthcoming Persius: A Study in Food, Philosophy, and the Figural.
Alessandro Schiesaro is Professor of Latin Literature at Sapienza University of Rome. He is the author of The Passions in Play: Thyestes and the Dynamics of Senecan Drama (2003) and the co-editor, with Thomas Habinek, of The Roman Cultural Revolution (1997).
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