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Reading Roman Declamation: Seneca the Elder provides a comprehensive critical overview of Roman declamation, as transmitted through Seneca the Elder's
Controversiae and
Suasoriae, in fifteen accessible and up-to-date chapters by leading international scholars that seek to define the fundamentals of declamation as a literary genre.
List of contents
- Introduction: What is Declamation?
- I. Declaimers and Declamation
- 1: Yelena Baraz: The Bitter Medicine of History: Seneca the Elder on the Genre of Declamation
- 2: Martin T. Dinter: Seneca and the Past
- 3: Charles Guérin: Greek Declaimers, Roman Context: (De)constructing Cultural Identity in Seneca the Elder
- 4: Orazio Cappello: Nomination and Systematization in Seneca's Controversiae
- II. Physical Technique: Actio
- 5: Anthony Corbeill: Physical Excess as a Marker of Genre in the Elder Seneca
- 6: Andrea Balbo: Between Real and Fictional Eloquence: Some Observations on actio in Porcius Latro and Albucius Silo
- III. Linguistic Technique: Motifs and Devices
- 7: Bart Huelsenbeck: The Ocean (Seneca Suas. 1): Community Rules for a Common Literary Topic
- 8: Beatrice Larosa: The Mythical exempla of Faithful Heroines in Seneca the Elder's Work: Literary Occurrences of a Declamatory Device
- 9: Chris van den Berg: The Rhetoric of Decline and the Rhetoric for declamatio
- IV. The Dark Side of Declamation
- 10: Jonathan Mannering: Objection! Contesting Taste and Space in Seneca's Declamatory Arena
- 11: Yazmín Victoria Huerta Cabrera: Color Medius or the Colour of Suspicion
- 12: Catherine Schneider: Laughing is no Laughing Matter: Laughs and Laughter in Seneca the Elder's Oeuvre
- V. Intertextuality
- 13: Julien Pingoud and Alessandra Rolle: Intertextuality in Seneca the Elder
- 14: Stefan Feddern: The Use of the Apostrophe: A Sign of the Fictionality of Declamation?
- 15: Danielle van Mal-Maeder: Controversial Games: Didactical Voices and the Construction of Discourse in Seneca's Controversiae and Suasoriae
About the author
Martin T. Dinter is Senior Lecturer in Latin Language and Literature at King's College London. He is the author of Anatomizing Civil War: Studies in Lucan's Epic Technique (University of Michigan Press, 2013) and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Roman Comedy (CUP, 2019), as well as the co-editor of A Companion to the Neronian Age (with Emma Buckley; Wiley-Blackwell, 2013) and two other volumes on Roman declamation: Reading Roman Declamation: The Declamations Ascribed to Quintilian (with Charles Guérin and Marcos Martinho; De Gruyter, 2016) and Reading Roman Declamation: Calpurnius Flaccus (with Charles Guérin and Marcos Martinho; De Gruyter, 2017). He has also written articles on Roman drama, Roman epic, and epigram, and is currently working on a book on Cato the Elder.
Charles Guérin is Professor of Latin Literature at Sorbonne Université, Paris. He has published monographs on the rhetorical notion of persona (J. Vrin, 2009; J. Vrin, 2011) and on witness testimony in the Roman courts of the first century BC (La Voix de la vérité; 2015), and has also edited and co-edited several volumes on ancient rhetoric, oratory, declamation, and literature. A former junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France, he is a member of the council of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric (2018-2021) and the executive committee of L'Année Philologique.
Marcos Martinho dos Santos is Associate Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He is a specialist in ancient rhetoric and in addition has published extensively on ancient grammarians and mythographers. He also serves on the editorial boards of nine Classics related journals and has edited and co-edited six volumes on Roman declamation, Cicero, and Greek mythology. He is currently preparing a book length study on Hyginus.
Summary
Reading Roman Declamation: Seneca the Elder provides a comprehensive critical overview of Roman declamation, as transmitted through Seneca the Elder's Controversiae and Suasoriae, in fifteen accessible and up-to-date chapters by leading international scholars that seek to define the fundamentals of declamation as a literary genre.
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This is an outstanding book and a most valuable contribution to the field of declamation, which has never before this trilogy received the scholarly attention it deserves.
