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200 10$aMorals and villas in Seneca's Letters $eplaces to dwell /$fJohn Henderson$b[electronic resource]
210  1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2004.
215   $a1 online resource (ix, 189 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s)
300   $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 177-183) and indexes.
327   $g1.$tTwelve steps to haven. Book 1: Letters 1-11 --$g2.$tDropping in (it) at Seneca's. With text and translation of Letter 12 --$g3.$tYou can get used to anything. Books 2-10 --$g4.$tThe long and winding mode. Books 14-20+ --$g5.$tBooking us in. Letters 84-88 --$g6.$tNow and then; here and there: at Scipio's. Text and translation of Letter 86 --$g7.$tBound for Vatia's. Text and translation of Letter 55 --$g8.$tKnocking the self: genuflexion, villafication, Vatia's. Letter 55 --$g9.$tThe world of the bath-house: Scipio's. Scipio in Letter 86; with: Horace's common scents --$g10.$tThe appliance of science: Scipio's. Aegialus in Letter 86; with: Virgil's funny farm.
330   $aJohn 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.
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606   $aEthics, Ancient
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