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Morals and villas in Seneca's Letters : = places to dwell /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Morals and villas in Seneca's Letters :/ John Henderson.
Reminder of title:	places to dwell /
remainder title:	Morals & Villas in Seneca's Letters
Author:	Henderson, John,
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 189 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Letter writing, Latin - History - To 1500. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511482229
ISBN:	9780511482229 (ebook)

Morals and villas in Seneca's Letters : = places to dwell /
Henderson, John,1948-

Morals and villas in Seneca's Letters :places to dwell /Morals & Villas in Seneca's LettersJohn Henderson. - 1 online resource (ix, 189 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Twelve steps to haven. Book 1: Letters 1-11 --1.

John Henderson explores three letters of Seneca describing visits to Roman villas, and surveys the whole collection to show how these villas work as designs for contrasting lives. Seneca's own place is ageing drastically; a recent Epicurean's paradise is a seductive oasis away from the dangers of Nero's Rome; once a fortress of the dour Rome of yesteryear, the legendary Scipio's lair was now a shrine to the old morality: Seneca revels in its primitive bath-house, dark and cramped, before exploring the garden with the present owner. Seneca brings the philosophical epistle to Latin literature, creating models for moralizing which feature self-criticism, parody and re-animated myth. Virgil and Horace come in for rough handling, as the Latin moralist wrests ethical practice and writing away from Greek gurus and texts, and into critical thinking within a Roman context. Here is powerful teaching on metaphor and translation, on self-transformation and cultural tradition.

ISBN: 9780511482229 (ebook)Subjects--Personal Names:

1014172
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus,
approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.Naturales quaestiones.Subjects--Topical Terms:

800507
Letter writing, Latin
--History--To 1500.

LC Class. No.: PA6661.E8 / H37 2004

Dewey Class. No.: 876/.01

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