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After centuries of neglect there is renewed interest in the life and works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca (or Seneca the Younger, c 4 BCE-65 CE). At one time an advisor at court to Nero, Seneca and his political career came to ruin when he was implicated in a later plot to kill the capricious and matricidal emperor, and compelled to commit suicide. Discredited through collusion, or at least association, with a notorious and tyrannical regime, Seneca's ideas were for a time also considered derivative of Greek stoicism and thus inferior to the real thing. In this first in-depth introduction to be published for many years, Christopher Star shows what a remarkable statesman, dramatist and philosopher his subject actually was. Seneca's original contributions to political philosophy and the philosophy of the emotions were considerable. He was a favourite authority of Tertullian, who saw Seneca as proto-believer and early humanist. And he is a key figure in the history of ideas and the Renaissance, as well as in literature and drama. This new survey does full justice to his significance.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Seneca
• Author: Christopher Star
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208
• EAN: 9781848858909
• ISBN: 1848858906
• ID: 05105520
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 278 g
• Dimensions: 218 × 139 × 29 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. November 2016

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