Essays on Seneca (Studien Zur Klassischen Philologie, Vol 79)

This book consists of twenty-one essays on the Stoic Philosopher, Lucius Annaeus Seneca. As author of epigrams, plays, treatises, dialogues, and letters, he has bequeathed to us an extraordinarily large and varied body of literature. This volume deals with some of his major philosophic concepts as well as with his artistry, his style, his irony, his paradoxes, and his wit. The authors wish to portray the erudition, the humanitas, and the deep psychological understanding of the Cordoban Philosopher. In recent decades, Seneca has been receiving much attention and approbation. He is the subject of on-going re-evaluation and renaissance. It is hoped that these essays will give the reader greater insight into Seneca the Man, the Philosopher, the Artist.