Seneca the Elder

Klappentext A study of Seneca's literary criticism, first published in 1981. Zusammenfassung A feature of Roman rhetorical education under the early empire was the dominance of the declamatio - the declamation on a mythological! historical or quasi-legal theme. The elder Seneca! father of the philosopher and dramatist! compiled an anthology of the often bizarre utterances of the declaimers. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Abbreviations; Part I. The Place of Seneca the Elder in Literary History: 1. Seneca the Elder: a man of his time; 2. The declamatory anthology; 3. The criticism; Part II. Seneca the Elder on the History of Eloquence: 4. Oratory and rhetorical theory up to his own time; 5. The history of declamation; 6. The decline of rhetoric in the early Empire; Part III. Five Aspects of Declamation: the Elder Seneca's Evidence: 7. Inventio; 8. Dispositio; 9. Elocutio; 10. Memoria; 11. Actio; Part IV. The Place of Early Imperial Declamation in Literary History: the Elder Seneca's Evidence: 12. Asianism, Atticism, and the styles of the declaimers; 13. Declamation and literary modernism in the early Empire; Appendix: Clausula usage of Seneca, Latro and Fuscus; Notes; Bibliography; Indexes.

Product details

• Authors: Janet Fairweather, Fairweather Janet, Fairweather Janet
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.11.2007
• EAN: 9780521044356
• ISBN: 978-0-521-04435-6
• No. of pages: 432
• Series: Cambridge Classical Studies; Cambridge Classical Studies
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Latin, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval