Seneca : a life

著者

• Wilson, Emily R.

書誌事項

Seneca : a life

Emily Wilson

Allen Lane, 2015

注記

Includes bibliographical references, bibliography and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This book traces the eventful life of Seneca, the Roman philosopher, dramatist, essayist and rhetorician of the first century CE, who came from Spain to Rome, spent his youth in Egypt, was exiled to Corsica under Claudius but recalled after eight years, and rose to dizzying heights of wealth, power and social influence under Nero, before falling from favour and being forced to kill himself. The book analyzes the relationship of Seneca's life story to his literary self-fashioning, and the tensions between the external worlds of politics, consumerism, and social success, with the Stoic ideals of asceticism, virtue and self-control.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB31359793
• ISBN:
  • 9781846146374
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: UK
• ページ数/冊数: xiii, 253 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • DC23 : 188
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D
  • LCSH : Philosophers -- Rome -- Biography
  • LCSH : Authors, Latin -- Biography
  • LCSH : Statesmen -- Rome -- Biography