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" Seneca / "
edited by John G. Fitch.
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BL
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983986
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b738356
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Seneca /\ edited by John G. Fitch.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2008.
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| Series Statement
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Oxford readings in classical studies
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1 online resource (vi, 438 pages).
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0191557749
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: 0199282080
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: 1281370207
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: 9780191557743
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: 9780199282081
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: 9780199282098
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: 9781281370204
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: 9781435633483
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0199282080
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0199282099
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-438).
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| Contents
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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.
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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.
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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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PHILOSOPHY-- History Surveys-- Ancient Classical.
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| Dewey Classification
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188
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B618.S387 2008eb
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18.46bcl
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Fitch, John G.
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