Seneca: A Philosopher in Politics

by Miriam T. Griffin

Book Overview

The relationship between Seneca's prose works and his career as a first-century Roman statesman is problematic, for while he writes in the first person, he tells little of his external life or of the people and events that formed its setting. In this book, Miriam Griffin addresses the problem by first reconstructing Seneca's career using only outside sources and his de Clementia and Apocolocyntosis. In the second part of the book she studies Seneca's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198147740
• ISBN13: 9780198147749
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 532 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 8.5"