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Author:   Shadi Bartsch (University of Chicago) ,  Alessandro Schiesaro (Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza', Italy)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.510kg
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9781107694217

ISBN 10:   1107694213
Pages:   378
Publication Date:   16 February 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Seneca: an introduction Shadi Bartsch and Alessandro Schiesaro; Part I. The Senecan Corpus: 2. Seneca multiplex: the phases (and phrases) of Seneca's life and works Susanna Braund; 3. Senecan tragedy Christopher Trinacty; 4. Absent presence in Seneca's Epistles: philosophy and friendship Catharine Edwards; 5. The dialogue in Seneca's Dialogues (and other moral essays) Matthew Roller; 6. Seneca on monarchy and the political life: De Clementia, De Tranquillitate Animi, De Otio Malcolm Schofield; 7. Seneca's scientific works Francesca Romana Berno; 8. Seneca's Apocolocyntosis: censors in the afterworld Kirk Freudenburg; Part II. Texts and Contexts: 9. Seneca and Augustan culture James Ker; 10. Seneca and Neronian Rome: in the mirror of time Victoria Rimell; 11. Style and form in Seneca's writings Gareth Williams; 12. Seneca's images and metaphors Mireille Armisen-Marchetti; 13. Theater and theatricality in Seneca's world Cedric A. J. Littlewood; 14. Seneca's emotions David Konstan; Part III. Senecan Tensions: 15. Senecan selves Shadi Bartsch; 16. Seneca's shame David Wray; 17. Theory and practice in Seneca's life and writings Carey Seal; 18. Seneca's originality Elizabeth Asmis; 19. Seneca and Epicurus: the allure of the other Alessandro Schiesaro; Part IV. The Senecan Tradition: 20. Seneca and the ancient world Aldo Setaioli; 21. Seneca and Christian tradition Chiara Torre; 22. Seneca redivivus: Seneca in the medieval and Renaissance world Roland Mayer; 23. Senecan political thought from the Middle Ages to early modernity Peter Stacey; 24. Seneca and the Moderns Francesco Citti.

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'... [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.' Francois Prost, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

'... [a] wonderful volume ... Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.' A. M. Busch, Choice

Author Information

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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