Morals and Villas in Seneca's Letters
Places to Dwell
John Henderson explores three letters of Seneca describing visits to Roman villas, and surveys the whole collection to show how these villas work as designs for contrasting lives. Seneca’s own place is ageing drastically; a recent Epicurean’s paradise is a seductive oasis away from the dangers of Nero’s Rome; once a fortress of the dour Rome of yesteryear, the legendary Scipio’s lair was now a shrine to the old morality: Seneca revels in its primitive bath-house, dark and cramped, before exploring the garden with the present owner. Seneca brings the philosophical epistle to Latin literature, creating models for moralizing which feature self-c…
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Weitere Autoren: John, Henderson
- ISBN: 978-0-521-03622-1
- EAN: 9780521036221
- Produktnummer: 2875450
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 200 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.1 cm 298 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 298
Über den Autor
John Henderson is Reader in Latin Literature at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of King's College. His recent books include: Pliny's Statue: The Letters, Self-Portraiture & Classical Art (2002), Telling Tales on Caesar: Roman Stories from Phaedrus (2001), Writing down Rome: Comedy, Satire, and Other Offences (1999), and Fighting for Rome: Poets and Caesars, History and Civil War (1998). Aesop's Human Zoo: Roman Stories About Our Bodies, and HORTVS: The Roman Gardening Book, are both forthcoming (2004).
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