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This volume is the first systematic study of Seneca's interaction
with earlier literature of a variety of genres and traditions. It
examines this interaction and engagement in his prose works,
offering interpretative readings that are at once groundbreaking
and stimulating to further study. Focusing on the Dialogues, the
Naturales quaestiones, and the Moral Epistles, the volume includes
multi- perspectival studies of Seneca's interaction with all the
great Latin epics (Lucretius, Vergil and Ovid), and discussions of
how Seneca's philosophical thought is informed by Hellenistic
doxography, forensic rhetoric and declamation, the Homeric
tradition, Euripidean tragedy and Greco-Roman mythology. The
studies analyzes the philosophy behind Seneca's incorporating exact
quotations from earlier tradition (including his criteria of
selectivity) and Seneca's interaction with ideas, trends and
techniques from different sources, in order to elucidate his
philosophical ideas and underscore his original contribution to the
discussion of established philosophical traditions. They also
provide a fresh interpretation of moral issues with particular
application to the Roman worldview as fashioned by the mos maiorum.
The volume, finally, features detailed discussion of the ways in
which Seneca, the author of philosophical prose, puts forward his
stance towards poetics and figures himself as a poet.
Intertextuality in Seneca's Philosophical Writings will be of
interest not only to those working on Seneca's philosophical works,
but also to anyone working on Latin literature and intertextuality
in the ancient world.
Despite the general scholarly consensus about Lucretius' debt to
Empedocles as the father of the genre of cosmological didactic
epic, there is a major disagreement regarding Lucretius' applause
for his Presocratic predecessor's praeclara reperta (DRN 1.732). In
the present study, Garani suggests that by praising Empedocles'
discoveries, Lucretius points to his predecessor's epistemological
methods of inquiry concerning the unseen, methods upon which he
himself draws extensively and creatively enhances. In this way, he
successfully penetrates into the invisible natural world, deciphers
its secrets, and thus liberates his pupil from superstitious fears
about death and physical phenomena. To justify this proposition,
Garani undertakes a systematic analysis of Lucretius' integration
of Empedocles' methods of creating analogies in the form of
literary devices -- personifications, similes, and metaphors -- and
demonstrates that his intertextual engagement with Empedocles'
philosophical poem is direct and intensive at both the poetic and
the philosophical levels.
Despite the general scholarly consensus about Lucretius' debt to
Empedocles as the father of the genre of cosmological didactic
epic, there is a major disagreement regarding Lucretius' applause
for his Presocratic predecessor's praeclara reperta (DRN 1.732). In
the present study, Garani suggests that by praising Empedocles'
discoveries, Lucretius points to his predecessor's epistemological
methods of inquiry concerning the unseen, methods upon which he
himself draws extensively and creatively enhances. In this way, he
successfully penetrates into the invisible natural world, deciphers
its secrets, and thus liberates his pupil from superstitious fears
about death and physical phenomena. To justify this proposition,
Garani undertakes a systematic analysis of Lucretius' integration
of Empedocles' methods of creating analogies in the form of
literary devices -- personifications, similes, and metaphors -- and
demonstrates that his intertextual engagement with Empedocles'
philosophical poem is direct and intensive at both the poetic and
the philosophical levels.
This volume is the first systematic study of Seneca's interaction
with earlier literature of a variety of genres and traditions. It
examines this interaction and engagement in his prose works,
offering interpretative readings that are at once groundbreaking
and stimulating to further study. Focusing on the Dialogues, the
Naturales quaestiones, and the Moral Epistles, the volume includes
multi- perspectival studies of Seneca's interaction with all the
great Latin epics (Lucretius, Vergil and Ovid), and discussions of
how Seneca's philosophical thought is informed by Hellenistic
doxography, forensic rhetoric and declamation, the Homeric
tradition, Euripidean tragedy and Greco-Roman mythology. The
studies analyzes the philosophy behind Seneca's incorporating exact
quotations from earlier tradition (including his criteria of
selectivity) and Seneca's interaction with ideas, trends and
techniques from different sources, in order to elucidate his
philosophical ideas and underscore his original contribution to the
discussion of established philosophical traditions. They also
provide a fresh interpretation of moral issues with particular
application to the Roman worldview as fashioned by the mos maiorum.
The volume, finally, features detailed discussion of the ways in
which Seneca, the author of philosophical prose, puts forward his
stance towards poetics and figures himself as a poet.
Intertextuality in Seneca's Philosophical Writings will be of
interest not only to those working on Seneca's philosophical works,
but also to anyone working on Latin literature and intertextuality
in the ancient world.
Several decades of scholarship have demonstrated that Roman
thinkers developed in new and stimulating directions the systems of
thought they inherited from the Greeks, and that, taken together,
they offer many perspectives that are of philosophical interest in
their own right. The Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy explores a
range of such Roman philosophical perspectives through thirty-four
newly commissioned essays. Where Roman philosophy has long been
considered a mere extension of Hellenistic systems of thought, this
volume moves beyond the search for sources and parallels and
situates Roman philosophy in its distinctive cultural context. The
Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy emphasizes four features of
Roman philosophy: aspects of translation, social context,
philosophical import, and literary style. The authors adopt an
inclusive approach, treating not just systematic thinkers such as
Cicero and Augustine, but also poets and historians. Topics covered
include ethnicity, cultural identity, literary originality, the
environment, Roman philosophical figures, epistemology, and ethics.
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