Margaret Graver (New Hampshire Dartmouth College)

Seneca

The Literary Philosopher

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Produktbeschreibung

This comprehensive study of Seneca's major philosophical works by a leading authority will be valuable for students and scholars of Greco-Roman philosophy and the literary culture of the Roman Empire, as well as for readers whose main interests are in Stoicism, Epicureanism, and/or ancient analyses of the emotions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 652g
• ISBN-13: 9781107164048
• ISBN-10: 1107164044
• Artikelnr.: 66142586

Autorenporträt

MARGARET GRAVER is the Aaron Lawrence Professor of Classics at Dartmouth College. Her previous publications include Stoicism and Emotion (2007), Cicero on the Emotions: Tusculan Disputations 3 and 4 (2002) and, with A. A. Long, a complete translation of Seneca's Letters on Ethics, as well as numerous articles in Hellenistic and Roman philosophy.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Recreating the Stoic Past: 1. The life of the mind
2. Action and emotion
3. The treatise On Benefits: real kindness and real agency
Part II. Rival Traditions in Philosophy: 4. Seneca and Epicurus
5. Refuting the Peripatetics: Seneca and the school of Aristotle
Part III. Models of Emotional Experience: 6. Seneca's therapy for anger
7. The weeping wise
8. Anatomies of joy: Seneca and the Gaudium tradition
Part IV. The Self within the Text: 9. The challenge of the Phaedrus: therapeutic writing and the Letters on Ethics
10. The mouse, the moneybox, and the six-footed scurrying solecism
11. The manhandling of Maecenas
12. Honeybee reading and self-scripting.