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Healing Grief - A Commentary on Seneca's Consolatio ad Marciam (Hardcover)
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Healing Grief - A Commentary on Seneca's Consolatio ad Marciam (Hardcover)
Series: CICERO
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Both our view of Seneca's philosophical thought and our approach to
the ancient consolatory genre have radically changed since the
latest commentary on the Consolatio ad Marciam was written in 1981.
The aim of this work is to offer a new book-length commentary on
the earliest of Seneca's extant writings, along with a revision of
the Latin text and a reassessment of Seneca's intellectual program,
strategies, and context. A crucial document to penetrate Seneca's
discourse on the self in its embryonic stages, the Ad Marciam is
here taken seriously as an engaging attempt to direct the
persuasive power of literary models and rhetorical devices toward
the fundamentally moral project of healing Marcia's grief and
correcting her cognitive distortions. Through close reading of the
Latin text, this commentary shows that Seneca invariably adapts
different traditions and voices - from Greek consolations to
Plato's dialogues, from the Roman discourse of gender and
exemplarity to epic poetry - to a Stoic framework, so as to give
his reader a lucid understanding of the limits of the self and the
ineluctability of natural laws.
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