Part of the Understanding Classics series
After centuries of neglect there is renewed interest in the life and works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca (or Seneca the Younger, c 4 BCE-65 CE).
At one time an advisor at court to Nero, Seneca and his political career came to ruin when he was implicated in a later plot to kill the capricious and matricidal emperor, and compelled to commit suicide.
Discredited through collusion, or at least association, with a notorious and tyrannical regime, Seneca's ideas were for a time also considered derivative of Greek stoicism and thus inferior to the real thing.
In this first in-depth introduction to be published for many years, Christopher Star shows what a remarkable statesman, dramatist and philosopher his subject actually was.
Seneca's original contributions to political philosophy and the philosophy of the emotions were considerable.
He was a favourite authority of Tertullian, who saw Seneca as proto-believer and early humanist. And he is a key figure in the history of ideas and the Renaissance, as well as in literature and drama.
This new survey does full justice to his significance.
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 192 pages
- Publisher: I.B.Tauris & Co. Ltd.
- Publication Date: 30/10/2016
- Category: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval
- ISBN: 9781848858909
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