Seneca: A Philosopher in Politics - A Philosopher in Politics

Zusatztext 'Miriam Griffin's book on Seneca has made a wecome transfer to paperback. This book provides useful material for those studying the history of the Principate in the first century AD. It is also useful for its exxploration of the philosophical background to matters that were important at this time.J. Hutchinson. JACT Review Klappentext The relationship between Seneca's prose works and his career as a first-century Roman statesman is problematic! for while he writes in the first person! he tells little of his external life or of the people and events that formed its setting. In this book! Miriam Griffin addresses the problem by first reconstructing Seneca's career using only outside sources and his de Clementia and Apocolocyntosis. In the second part of the book she studies Seneca's treatment of subjects of political significance! including his views on slavery! provincial policy! wealth! and suicide. Finding that on the whole! the word of the philosopher illuminates the work of the statesman! this book provides an important objective reconstruction of Seneca's political career. Zusammenfassung Examining the problematic relation between Seneca's prose works and his career as a first-century Roman statesman, this work first reconstructs his career by using outside sources and his political works. It then studies Seneca's treatment of subjects of political significance.

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• Authors: Miriam T. Griffin, Miriam T. (Tutor in Ancient History and F Griffin, Miriam T. (Tutor in Ancient History and Fellow Griffin, Griffin Miriam T.
• Assisted by: Miriam D. Griffin (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.02.1992
• EAN: 9780198147749
• ISBN: 978-0-19-814774-9
• No. of pages: 532
• Series: Clarendon Paperbacks; Clarendon Paperbacks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; European History, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, Latin, HISTORY / Europe / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500