The Cambridge Companion to Seneca
- Submitting institution
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The University of Manchester
- Unit of assessment
- 29 - Classics
- Output identifier
- 51421883
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1017/CCO9781139542746
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 1107694213
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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A - SALC
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- I co-edited the Cambridge Companion to Seneca with Shadi Bartsch (University of Chicago). Apart from the general planning and editorial care of the volume, and rather more intense interventions on some chapters that came in, for various reasons, in a less than ideal shape, I co-wrote the ‘rich’ (BMCR) introduction and contributed a chapter about Seneca’s relationship with Epicurus, at least in principle his main ideological opponent. This is a thorny issues that goes to the core of some fundamental aspects of Seneca’s thought and writing: his precarious allegiance to Stoic orthodoxy, the tension between restraint and excess in philosophical writing, the shifting nature and relevance of the sublime. Seneca’s admiration for his main opponent, revealed in practice as well as in theory, allows for a more nuanced and problematic evaluation of his Stoicism.
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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