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Intertextuality in Seneca's Philosophical Writings
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Contributors -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Part 1 -- 1 Seneca on Augustus and Roman fatherhood -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Augustus the father -- 3 Fathers, sons and the pater patriae -...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Milton
: Taylor & Francis Group
, 2020
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| Series: | Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
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| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=6141241 |
| E-Book Packages: | ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection |
| Summary: | Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Contributors -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Part 1 -- 1 Seneca on Augustus and Roman fatherhood -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Augustus the father -- 3 Fathers, sons and the pater patriae -- 4 God the father -- 5 Seneca's example: practicing intertextuality as affiliation -- 2 Myth, poetry and Homer in Seneca philosophus -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Theological criticism: rejection of Stoic allegoresis -- 3 Seneca and the spatium mythicum -- 4 (Greek) poets and myth in Seneca -- 5 The 'myths' of Homer -- 6 Conclusions -- Appendix: references to myth in Seneca philosophus -- Mythological appendix83 -- 3 Seneca and the doxography of ethics -- 1 The Letter Writer's growing acceptance of theoretical philosophy -- 2 The Epistulae morales and the Outline of Stoic Ethics by Arius Didymus: the parallels -- 3 Doxography of ethics, references to the Libri moralis philosophiae, and the Letter Writer's developing acceptance of ... -- 4 The structure and content of Seneca's Libri moralis philosophiae -- Part 2 -- 4 Reading Seneca reading Vergil -- Case 1 -- Case 2 -- Case 3 -- Case 4 -- Case 5 -- Case 6 -- Conclusion -- 5 Seneca quoting Ovid in the Epistulae morales -- 1 Philosophical sayings and the flocks of Polyphemus (Ep. 33) -- 2 What's Io got to do with it? (Ep. 110) -- 6 The importance of collecting shells: Intertextuality in Seneca's Epistle 49 -- 1 Introduction: Epistle 49 -- 2 An elegiac opening (Ep. 49.1-2) -- 3 The first quotation: Cicero against lyric poetry (Ep. 49.5) -- 4 The second quotation: Vergil, or the philosopher against the rest of the world (Ep. 49.7) -- 5 The final quotation: Euripides and Stoic rhetoric (Ep. 49.12) -- 6 The allusion to Aristo of Chios (Ep. 49.6). 7 Sub auro servitus habitat: Seneca's moralizing of architecture and the anti-Neronian querelle -- 8 Seneca on the mother cow: Poetic models and natural philosophy in the Consolation to Marcia -- 1 Introduction: consoling, instructing, and rewriting -- 2 Animal sorrows across the genres: Lucretius and Ovid -- 3 Stoicizing the cow: Seneca's cosmology and philosophical anthropology -- 9 Seneca on Pythagoras' mirabilia aquarum (NQ 3.20-1, 25-6 -- Ovid Met. 15.270-336) -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Naturales quaestiones 3.20-1: effects of certain waters upon body and mind -- 2.1 Effects upon body: petrification -- 2.2 Effects upon mind -- 2.3 Madness or deep lethargy -- 2.4 Drunkenness -- 2.5 Seneca's (2nd) Ovidian omission -- 2.6 Death -- 2.7 First conclusions -- 3 Naturales quaestiones 3.25-6: various mirabilia aquarum -- 3.1 Styx -- 3.2 Waters with colorific force -- 3.3 Floating bricks and floating islands -- 3.4 Disappearing and reappearing rivers -- 4 Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index locorum -- General index. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (289 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781000037692 |
