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UNINA9910818215603321 |
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Autore |
Henderson John <1948-> |
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Titolo |
Morals and villas in Seneca's Letters : places to dwell / / John Henderson |
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Cambridge ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2004 |
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1-280-44930-6 |
0-511-18567-7 |
0-511-18484-0 |
0-511-18751-3 |
0-511-31360-8 |
0-511-48222-1 |
0-511-18658-4 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (ix, 189 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Latin letters |
Latin letters - History and criticism |
Philosophers - Rome |
Architecture, Domestic - Rome |
Country homes - Rome |
Ethics, Ancient |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-183) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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; 1. Twelve steps to haven. Book 1: Letters 1-11 -- ; 2. Dropping in (it) at Seneca's. With text and translation of Letter 12 -- ; 3. You can get used to anything. Books 2-10 -- ; 4. The long and winding mode. Books 14-20+ -- ; 5. Booking us in. Letters 84-88 -- ; 6. Now and then; here and there: at Scipio's. Text and translation of Letter 86 -- ; 7. Bound for Vatia's. Text and translation of Letter 55 -- ; 8. Knocking the self: genuflexion, villafication, Vatia's. Letter 55 -- ; 9. The world of the bath-house: Scipio's. Scipio in Letter 86; with: Horace's common scents -- ; 10. The appliance of science: Scipio's. Aegialus in Letter 86; with: Virgil's funny farm. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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John Henderson explores three letters of Seneca describing visits to |
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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. |
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