Seneca: A Philosopher in Politics (Clarendon Paperbacks)
by Miriam T. Griffin
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For this Clarendon Paperback, Dr Griffin has written a new Postscript to bring the original book fully up to date. She discusses further important and controversial questions of fact or interpretation in the light of the scholarship of the intervening years and provides additional argumentwhere necessary.The connection between Seneca's prose works and his career as a first-century Roman statesman is problematic. Although he writes in the first person, he tells us little of his external life show more or of the people and events that formed its setting. Miriam Griffin addresses the problem by firstreconstructing Seneca's career using only outside sources and his de Clementia and Apocolocyntosis, whose political purposes are undisputed. In the second part of the book she studies Seneca's treatment of subjects of political significance, including his views on slavery, provincial policy, wealth,and suicide. On the whole, the word of the philosopher is found to illuminate the work of the statesman, but notable exceptions emerge, and the links that are revealed vary from theme to theme and rarely accord with traditional autobiographical interpretations of Seneca's works. show lessTags
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Miriam T. Griffin was born Miriam Tamara Dressler in Brooklyn, New York on June 6, 1935. She received a bachelor's degree from Barnard College, a master's degree from Radcliffe College, and a doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University. In 1967, she became a fellow and tutor in ancient history at Somerville College, Oxford and taught there for show more decades. She wrote several books including Seneca: A Philosopher in Politics, Nero: The End of a Dynasty, and Seneca on Society: A Guide to De Beneficiis. She died from acute myeloid leukemia on May 16, 2018 at the age of 82. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Seneca the Younger
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- 320.5 — Society, government, & culture Political science Types of Government Political ideologies
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- JC89 .G67 — Political Science Political theory Political theory. The state. Theories of the state Ancient state
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