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PaperbackEngels9781108013062
10-6-2010
This two-volume critical edition of Seneca's tragedies by Friedrich Leo (1851–1914) was published in Berlin in 1878–1879. Seneca, the first-century Roman philosopher, modelled his tragedies on the work of Greek playwright Euripides. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781108013079
10-6-2010
This two-volume critical edition of Seneca's tragedies by Friedrich Leo (1851–1914) was published in Berlin in 1878–1879. Seneca, the first-century Roman philosopher, modelled his tragedies on the work of Greek playwright Euripides. Meer
onbekendEngels9781108013086
10-6-2010
This two-volume critical edition of Seneca's tragedies by Friedrich Leo (1851–1914) was published in Berlin in 1878–1879. Seneca, the first-century Roman philosopher, modelled his tragedies on the work of Greek playwright Euripides. Meer
GebondenEngels9781107035058
16-2-2015
The Roman statesman, philosopher and playwright Lucius Annaeus Seneca dramatically influenced the progression of Western thought. His works have had an unparalleled impact on the development of ethical theory, shaping a code of behavior for dealing with tyranny in his own age that endures today. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781108791618
3-11-2022
Shakespeare's tragic characters have often been seen as forerunners of modern personhood. It has been assumed that Shakespeare was able to invent such lifelike figures in part because of his freedom from the restrictions of classical form. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781107694217
16-2-2015
The Roman statesman, philosopher and playwright Lucius Annaeus Seneca dramatically influenced the progression of Western thought. His works have had an unparalleled impact on the development of ethical theory, shaping a code of behavior for dealing with tyranny in his own age that endures today. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781108003582
20-7-2009
Seneca's plays, which include Hercules Furens, Phaedra, Medea and Oedipus, were widely read during the Elizabethan era, and had an important influence on the dramatists of the time, including Shakespeare, Kyd, Marlowe and Marston. Meer
GebondenEngels9781107090019
26-1-2015
This is an extended meditation on ethics in literature across the Senecan corpus. There are two chapters on the Moral Letters, asking how one is to read philosophy or how one can write about being. Meer
GebondenEngels9781107164048
30-3-2023
This comprehensive study of Seneca's major philosophical works by a leading authority will be valuable for students and scholars of Greco-Roman philosophy and the literary culture of the Roman Empire, as well as for readers whose main interests are in Stoicism, Epicureanism, and/or ancient analyses of the emotions. Meer
GebondenEngels9781108477604
7-7-2022
Seneca's Characters addresses one of the most enduring and least theorised elements of literature: fictional character and its relationship to actual, human selfhood. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780815631385
30-4-2007
PaperbackEngels9780813504803
PaperbackEngels9781009516136
25-4-2024
Many modern critics have treated Seneca as an innovator in historical understandings of 'selfhood' and self-awareness. This volume of essays by internationally well-known scholars promises to reshape our understanding of Seneca, and to establish once and for all his place as a student of the human psyche. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781501727979
15-8-2018
GebondenEngels9781666950120
15-3-2024
This book explores the link between Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Conference of 1848, and the Women’s Suffrage Bill, unveiling Catherine Paine Blaine’s journey within the Suffragist movement, highlighting her advocacy within the Suffragist history in Washington State and the Western US. Meer
GebondenEngels9783631633052
23-11-2012
This award-winning book deals with the ethical aspect of emotions in human decision making in literature. The broadest description of the process of 'emotional obsession' can be found in Euripides' tragedy of Phaedra, but the topos can be found in the tragedies of Roman philosopher Seneca and modern French poet Jean Racine, as well. Meer
GebondenEngels9783484365810
30-4-2003