Seneca (Oxford University Press, 2008)
Includes bibliographical references (p. [421]-438)
Imago vitae suae / Miriam T. Griffin -- Seneca's epistles to Lucilius: a revaluation / Marcus Wilson -- Self-scrutiny and self-transformation in Seneca's letters / Catharine Edwards -- Imagination and meditation in Seneca: the example of praemeditatio / Mireille Armisen-Marchetti -- The will in Seneca the Younger / Brad Inwood -- Boundary violation and the landscape of the self in Senecan tragedy / Charles Segal -- Construction of the self in Senecan drama / John G. Fitch and Siobhan McElduff -- Senecan tragedy: back on stage? / Patrick Kragelund -- Staging Seneca: the production of Troas as a philological experiment / Wilfried Stroh -- Seneca's Oedipus: the drama in the word / Donald J. Mastronarde -- Gender and power in Seneca's Thyestes / Cedric Littlewood -- The implied reader and the political argument in Seneca's Apocolocyntosis and De Clementia / Eleanor Winsor Leach -- Roman historical exempla in Seneca / Roland G. Mayer -- In umbra virtutis: gloria in the thought of Seneca the philosopher / Robert J. Newman -- Seneca and slavery / K.R. Bradley -- The dating of Seneca's tragedies, with special reference to Thyestes / R.G.M. Nisbet -- Virgil's Dido and Seneca's tragic heroines / Elaine Fantham -- Seneca and Renaissance drama: ideology and meaning / A.J. Boyle
Statesman, dramatist, philosopher, and prose stylist, Seneca was a leading figure in the Roman Empire in the first century AD. This volume is a collection of outstanding articles written about him during the last four decades, with a new introduction which places the articles within the context of recent academic thought and criticism. - ;Seneca was a man of many facets: statesman, dramatist, philosopher, prose stylist. His life was marked by extremes of fortune - extremes that are reflected in much of his writing, and in the vicissitudes of his reputation in later centuries. This volume bring