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This new and important introduction to Seneca provides a systematic and concise presentation of this author’s philosophical works and his tragedies. It provides handbook style surveys of each genuine or attributed work, giving dates and brief descriptions, and taking into account the most important philosophical and philological issues. In addition, they provide accounts of the major steps in the history of their later influence. The cultural background of the texts and the most important problem areas within the philosophic and tragic corpus of Seneca are dealt with in separate essays.
Price: $286.00
Pages: 882
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Studies
Publication Date:
13 December 2013
ISBN: 9789004154612
Format: Hardcover
"This almost 900-page introduction to Seneca is a valuable resource even for scholars whose work focuses on Seneca, since it covers the full range of Seneca’s work in philosophy and poetry, a range so wide that no one person can master it. (...) In its comprehensiveness, scholarly depth, and factual density it is very much a work in the Germanic tradition of Pauly-Wissowa, albeit entirely in English." Gregory A. Staley, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2014.09.20.
"The volume (...) offers much material for several groups of users alike. It contains both informative introductions and deeper analysis. (...) The volume is an impressive achievement and seems indispensable for any serious institutional library of classics." Vincent Hunink, Mnemosyne 08.2015.
"The volume (...) offers much material for several groups of users alike. It contains both informative introductions and deeper analysis. (...) The volume is an impressive achievement and seems indispensable for any serious institutional library of classics." Vincent Hunink, Mnemosyne 08.2015.
Gregor Damschen is a Research Fellow of the SNF at the University of Lucerne and a lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Halle. His research focuses on topics in ancient philosophy, epistemology and logic.
Andreas Heil is working at the University of Dresden. He is author of Alma Aeneis. Studien zur Vergil- und Statiusrezeption Dante Alighieris (2002), Marcus Valerius Martialis. Epigrammaton liber decimus (2004, with G. Damschen) and Die dramatische Zeit in Senecas Tragödien (in preparation).
Contributors: Michael von Albrecht; Mireille Armisen-Marchetti; Andrea Balbo; Margarethe Billerbeck; F.-R. Chaumartin; Gregor Damschen; Joachim Dingel; Catharine Edwards; Anna Maria Ferrero; Rolando Ferri; Susanna Fischer; Marica Frank; Alfons Fürst; Bardo Maria Gauly; Sander M. Goldberg; Margaret R. Graver; Thomas Habinek; G.W.M. Harrison; Andreas Heil; Christoph Kugelmeier; Matthias Laarmann; Mario Lentano; Wolf-Lüder Liebermann; C.A. Littlewood; Gottfried Mader; Ermanno Malaspina; C. W. Marshall; Roland Mayer; Giancarlo Mazzoli; Burkhard Mojsisch; Maria Monteleone; Fritz-Heiner Mutschler; Renata Roncali; Jochen Sauer; E. A. Schmidt; Werner Schubert; John Sellars; Aldo Setaioli; Robert S. Smith; Wilfried Stroh; Karlheinz Töchterle; Chiara Torre; Jula Wildberger; Gareth D. Williams; Michael Winterbottom.
Andreas Heil is working at the University of Dresden. He is author of Alma Aeneis. Studien zur Vergil- und Statiusrezeption Dante Alighieris (2002), Marcus Valerius Martialis. Epigrammaton liber decimus (2004, with G. Damschen) and Die dramatische Zeit in Senecas Tragödien (in preparation).
Contributors: Michael von Albrecht; Mireille Armisen-Marchetti; Andrea Balbo; Margarethe Billerbeck; F.-R. Chaumartin; Gregor Damschen; Joachim Dingel; Catharine Edwards; Anna Maria Ferrero; Rolando Ferri; Susanna Fischer; Marica Frank; Alfons Fürst; Bardo Maria Gauly; Sander M. Goldberg; Margaret R. Graver; Thomas Habinek; G.W.M. Harrison; Andreas Heil; Christoph Kugelmeier; Matthias Laarmann; Mario Lentano; Wolf-Lüder Liebermann; C.A. Littlewood; Gottfried Mader; Ermanno Malaspina; C. W. Marshall; Roland Mayer; Giancarlo Mazzoli; Burkhard Mojsisch; Maria Monteleone; Fritz-Heiner Mutschler; Renata Roncali; Jochen Sauer; E. A. Schmidt; Werner Schubert; John Sellars; Aldo Setaioli; Robert S. Smith; Wilfried Stroh; Karlheinz Töchterle; Chiara Torre; Jula Wildberger; Gareth D. Williams; Michael Winterbottom.