Flattery in Seneca the Younger - Theory & Practice

Flattery in Seneca the Younger explores the discourse of flattery in Seneca's philosophical texts, and analyses the extent to which Seneca developed a theory of adulation. Martina Russo maps a phenomenology of flattery, tracing its external manifestations in Senecan philosophy.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Adulatio in Performance: Seneca's Consolatio ad Polybium


• 2: Polybius' hilariora studi


• 3: Flattering with Exempla: Claudius and Historical Exempla in Ad Pol. (14-17)


• 4: Blatantly Obsequious or Wisely Cautious? Exempla from De ira


• 5: The Opposite of Flattery: Simplicitas and the Exemplum of Iulius Canus


• 6: Seneca's Flattery of Nero: De clementia


• 7: eneca's Theories of Flattery: The Letters to Lucilius


• 8: Seneca, Theorist of Flattery: Naturales quaestiones (4a, praefatio)

About the author

Martina Russo is a postdoctoral researcher at Sapienza Università di Roma, where she also completed her BA and MA degrees in Classics. During her MA, she was visiting scholar at St Anne's College, Oxford. She was a visiting scholar at the ICS in London (2016) and received a PhD in Classics and Ancient History from the University of Warwick (2020), having also been visiting scholar at Johns Hopkins University. She was an Early Career Fellow at the IAS (2020-21) and Research Fellow and Teaching Fellow in Latin literature and language at Sapienza Università di Roma (2021-22).

Summary

Flattery in Seneca the Younger explores the discourse of flattery in Seneca's philosophical texts, and analyses the extent to which Seneca developed a theory of adulation. Martina Russo maps a phenomenology of flattery, tracing its external manifestations in Senecan philosophy.

Product details

• Authors: Martina Russo, Martina (Sapienza Universita DI Roma) Russo
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.04.2024
• EAN: 9780192858115
• ISBN: 978-0-19-285811-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; Latin, HISTORY / Ancient / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500