Author: GRIFFIN, MIRIAM T.
Title: Seneca a Philosopher in Politics
Description: Oxford University Press, 1976. Hardcover. ISBN: 0198143656. Light shelfwear to book. Light foxing to top of textblock. Minor spotting to rear board. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). DJ is price-clipped. DJ spine a bit sunned. ; 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 treatment of subjects of political significance, including his views on slavery, provincial policy, wealth, and suicide. Finding that on the whole, the word of the philosopher illuminates the work of the statesman, this book provides an important objective reconstruction of Seneca's political career. ; 504 pages. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .

Keywords: 0198143656 Philosophers And Philosophy Seneca Political Science Roman History Biographies & Memoirs Classical Greek & Roman Roman Empire


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