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- catalog abstract ""John Henderson explores three letters of Seneca describing visits to Roman villas, and surveys the whole collection of show how these villas work as designs for contrasting lives. Seneca's own place is ageing drastically; a recent Epicurean's paradise is a seductive oasis away from the dangers of Nero's Rome; once a fortress of the dour Rome of yesteryear, the legendary Scipio's lair is now a shrine to the old morality: Seneca revels in its primitive bath-house, dark and cramped, before exploring the garden with the present owner. Seneca brings the philosophical epistle to Latin literature, creating models for moralizing which feature self-criticism, parody, and reanimated myth. Virgil and Horace come in for rough handling, as the Latin moralist wrests ethical practice and writing away from Greek gurus and texts, and into critical thinking within a Roman context. Here is powerful teaching on metaphor and translation, on self-transformation and cultural tradition."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13174999.
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description ""John Henderson explores three letters of Seneca describing visits to Roman villas, and surveys the whole collection of show how these villas work as designs for contrasting lives. Seneca's own place is ageing drastically; a recent Epicurean's paradise is a seductive oasis away from the dangers of Nero's Rome; once a fortress of the dour Rome of yesteryear, the legendary Scipio's lair is now a shrine to the old morality: Seneca revels in its primitive bath-house, dark and cramped, before exploring the garden with the present owner. Seneca brings the philosophical epistle to Latin literature, creating models for moralizing which feature self-criticism, parody, and reanimated myth.".
- catalog description "1. Twelve steps to haven. Book 1: Letters 1-11 -- 2. Dropping in (it) at Seneca's. With text and translation of Letter 12 -- 3. You can get used to anything. Books 2-10 -- 4. The long and winding mode. Books 14-20+ -- 5. Booking us in. Letters 84-88 -- 6. Now and then; here and there: at Scipio's. Text and translation of Letter 86 -- 7. Bound for Vatia's. Text and translation of Letter 55 -- 8. Knocking the self: genuflexion, villafication, Vatia's. Letter 55 -- 9. The world of the bath-house: Scipio's. Scipio in Letter 86; with: Horace's common scents -- 10. The appliance of science: Scipio's. Aegialus in Letter 86; with: Virgil's funny farm.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-183) and indexes.".
- catalog description "Virgil and Horace come in for rough handling, as the Latin moralist wrests ethical practice and writing away from Greek gurus and texts, and into critical thinking within a Roman context. Here is powerful teaching on metaphor and translation, on self-transformation and cultural tradition."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "ix, 189 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0521829445".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "Letters in Latin with parallel English translation; editorial matter in English.".
- catalog language "eng lat lat".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Rome".
- catalog spatial "Rome.".
- catalog subject "876/.01 22".
- catalog subject "Architecture, Domestic Rome.".
- catalog subject "Country homes Rome.".
- catalog subject "Ethics, Ancient.".
- catalog subject "Latin letters History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Latin letters Translations into English.".
- catalog subject "Letter writing, Latin History To 1500.".
- catalog subject "PA6661.E8 H37 2004".
- catalog subject "Philosophers Rome Correspondence.".
- catalog subject "Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D. Epistulae morales ad Lucilium.".
- catalog subject "Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D. Knowledge Architecture.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Twelve steps to haven. Book 1: Letters 1-11 -- 2. Dropping in (it) at Seneca's. With text and translation of Letter 12 -- 3. You can get used to anything. Books 2-10 -- 4. The long and winding mode. Books 14-20+ -- 5. Booking us in. Letters 84-88 -- 6. Now and then; here and there: at Scipio's. Text and translation of Letter 86 -- 7. Bound for Vatia's. Text and translation of Letter 55 -- 8. Knocking the self: genuflexion, villafication, Vatia's. Letter 55 -- 9. The world of the bath-house: Scipio's. Scipio in Letter 86; with: Horace's common scents -- 10. The appliance of science: Scipio's. Aegialus in Letter 86; with: Virgil's funny farm.".
- catalog title "Morals and villas in Seneca's Letters : places to dwell / John Henderson.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "Records and correspondence. fast".
- catalog type "Translations. fast".
- catalog type "text".