Intertextuality in Seneca's Philosophical Writings

ISBN-13: 9780367331511 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 272 str.

Myrto Garani; Andreas N. Michalopoulos; Sophia Papaioannou

Opis

This volume is the first systematic study of Seneca’s interaction with earlier literature of a variety of genres and traditions. It examines this interaction and engagement in his prose works, offering interpretative readings that are at once groundbreaking and stimulating to further study.

Recenzje

"[T]his volume helps us to judge some of the advantages and limitations of intertextual hermeneutics. Each author sensitively argues for the need to move beyond surface readings of Seneca's philosophical prose to discover a deeper meaning that hinges on his profound engagement with the literary and philosophical tradition... This volume makes clear that Seneca truly is a man of many genres, whose works exploit rhetorical imitatio and aemulatio for a variety of reasons, but often to further elaborate and enhance his political, poetic and philosophical purpose." - The Classical Journal

Spis treści

Introduction: Intertextuality in the Philosopher Seneca  Part 1  1. Seneca on Augustus and Roman Fatherhood  2. Myth, Poetry and Homer in Seneca Philosophus  3. Seneca and the Doxography or Ethics  Part 2  4. Reading Seneca Reading Vergil  5. Seneca Quoting Ovid in the Epistulae Morales  6. The Importance of Collecting Shells: Intertextuality in Seneca’s Epistle 49  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  9. Seneca on Pythagoras’ mirabilia aquarum (NQ 3.20-1, 25-6; Ovid Met. 15.270-336)