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Zusatztext This collection of essays does an excellent job of making Seneca a more accessible author for first-time readers, and it will prove an essential resource for more advanced Senecan scholars.... these essays comprise a necessary and very useful starting point for anyone interested in Senecan study; they also provide for novice students myriad access points for reading beyond the surface of any Senecan work. Informationen zum Autor John G. Fitch is Professor Emeritus, Department of Greek & Roman Studies, University of Victoria. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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 brings together some outstanding essays written about him over the past four decades, and illustrates the diversity of approaches by which modern critics have attempted to understand this multifaceted figure. Just as Seneca's writings often reflect his times, so current critical approaches often reflect issues in contemporary thought and society. Several of the essays have been revised by their authors for this volume, and two of them are translated for the first time. A new introduction places the articles within the context of recent academic thought and criticism. All Latin has been translated. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Miriam T. Griffin: Imago Vitae Suae 2: Marcus Wilson: Seneca's Epistles to Lucilius: A Revaluation 3: Catharine Edwards: Self-scrutiny and Self-transformation in Seneca's Letters 4: Mireille Armisen-Marchetti: Imagination and Meditation in Seneca: The Example of Praemeditatio 5: Brad Inwood: The Will in Seneca the Younger 6: Charles Segal: Boundary Violation and the Landscape of the Self in Senecan Tragedy 7: John G. Fitch and Siobhan McElduff: Construction of the Self in Senecan Drama 8: Patrick Kragelund: Senecan Tragedy: Back on Stage? 9: Wilfried Stroh: Staging Seneca: The Production of Troas as a Philological Experiment 10: Donald J. Mastronarde: Seneca's Oedipus: The Drama in the Word 11: Cedric Littlewood: Seneca's Thyestes: The Tragedy with no Women? 12: Eleanor Winsor Leach: The Implied Reader and the Political Argument in Seneca's Apocolocyntosis and De Clementia 13: Roland G. Mayer: Roman Historical Exempla in Seneca 14: Robert J. Newman: In umbra virtutis. Gloria in the Thought of Seneca the Philosopher 15: K. R. Bradley: Seneca and Slavery 16: R. G. M. Nisbet: The Dating of Seneca's Tragedies, with Special Reference to Thyestes 17: Elaine Fantham: Virgil's Dido and Seneca's Tragic Heroines 18: A. J. Boyle: Seneca and Renaissance Drama: Ideology and Meaning ...
