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Author:   James Ker (Associate Professor of Classical Studies, Associate Professor of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.40cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 15.60cm
Weight:   0.594kg
ISBN:  

9780199959693

ISBN 10:   0199959692
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   11 April 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ; List of figures ; Abbreviations ; Introduction ; Part I: Historical Narratives ; 1. Three Death-Descriptions: Tacitus, Suetonius, Cassius Dio ; 2. Neronian Exits: Writing Death into History ; Part II: Seneca the Author ; 3. The Man of Many Genres in his Death ; 4. Consolations on the Departure of the Consoler ; 5. A Closing Scene in the Theaters of Ethics, Tragedy, and History ; 6. End of a Series: Death in Epistolary Time ; Part III: Receptions ; 7. Tracing the Tradition ; Part IV: Themes ; 8. Forced Suicide and the Bodily Paths to Libertas ; 9. Passing into Memory: Seneca's Imago and its Reproduction ; 10. Places Suburban and Serious: The Ruins of Seneca and Scipio ; Epilogue ; Primary sources ; Bibliography

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Ker confronts the reader with a dizzying array of sources ranging from imperial Roman to contemporary literature. He manages to identify persuasive continuities and meaningful dialogues between them... Recommended. CHOICE

Ker confronts the reader with a dizzying array of sources ranging from imperial Roman to contemporary literature. He manages to identify persuasive continuities and meaningful dialogues between them... Recommended. CHOICE really valuable as a successful and deeply scholarly attempt at reviving his character and his literary and philolosophical activity, and at doing so, paradoxically, from the perspective of the moment of his forced but also voluntary final exit ... A truly eminent and unforgettable work! Elzbieta Wesolowska, Eos

Ker confronts the reader with a dizzying array of sources ranging from imperial Roman to contemporary literature. He manages to identify persuasive continuities and meaningful dialogues between them.... Recommended. * CHOICE * really valuable as a successful and deeply scholarly attempt at reviving his character and his literary and philolosophical activity, and at doing so, paradoxically, from the perspective of the moment of his forced but also voluntary final exit ... A truly eminent and unforgettable work! * Elzbieta Wesolowska, Eos *

really valuable as a successful and deeply scholarly attempt at reviving his character and his literary and philolosophical activity, and at doing so, paradoxically, from the perspective of the moment of his forced but also voluntary final exit ... A truly eminent and unforgettable work! * Elzbieta Wesolowska, Eos * Ker confronts the reader with a dizzying array of sources ranging from imperial Roman to contemporary literature. He manages to identify persuasive continuities and meaningful dialogues between them.... Recommended. * CHOICE *

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James Ker is Associate Professor of Classical Studies, the University of Pennsylvania.

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