Seneca - Couverture souple

Star, Christopher

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1848858906 ISBN 13 : 9781848858909

Editeur : I.B. Tauris, 2016

Synopsis

After centuries of neglect there is renewed interest in the life and works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca (or Seneca the Younger, c 4 BCE-65 CE). At one time an advisor at court to Nero, Seneca and his political career came to ruin when he was implicated in a later plot to kill the capricious and matricidal emperor, and compelled to commit suicide. Discredited through collusion, or at least association, with a notorious and tyrannical regime, Seneca's ideas were for a time also considered derivative of Greek stoicism and thus inferior to the real thing. In this first in-depth introduction to be published for many years, Christopher Star shows what a remarkable statesman, dramatist and philosopher his subject actually was. Seneca's original contributions to political philosophy and the philosophy of the emotions were considerable. He was a favourite authority of Tertullian, who saw Seneca as proto-believer and early humanist. And he is a key figure in the history of ideas and the Renaissance, as well as in literature and drama. This new survey does full justice to his significance.

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À propos de l?auteur

Christopher Star is Associate Professor of Classics at Middlebury College, Vermont. He is the author of The Empire of the Self: Self-Command and Political Speech in Seneca and Petronius (2012).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: I.B. Tauris
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1848858906
• ISBN 13: 9781848858909
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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