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Author : Shadi Bartsch,Alessandro Schiesaro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107035058
This Companion examines the complete works of Seneca in context and establishes the importance of his legacy in Western thought.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1102640652
A comprehensive, up-to-date overview of Senecan studies, this Companion thoroughly examines the complete works of the Roman statesman, philosopher and playwright, emphasizing the aspects of his writings that challenge interpretation. The authors place Seneca in historical context and trace his impressive legacy in literature, art, religion and politics into the early modern period.
Author : Brad Inwood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003-05-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521779855
This unique volume offers an odyssey through the ideas of the Stoics in three particular ways: first, through the historical trajectory of the school itself and its influence; second, through the recovery of the history of Stoic thought; third, through the ongoing confrontation with Stoicism, showing how it refines philosophical traditions, challenges the imagination, and ultimately defines the kind of life one chooses to lead. A distinguished roster of specialists have written an authoritative guide to the entire philosophical tradition. The first two chapters chart the history of the school in the ancient world, and are followed by chapters on the core themes of the Stoic system: epistemology, logic, natural philosophy, theology, determinism, and metaphysics. There are two chapters on what might be thought of as the heart and soul of the Stoics system: ethics.
Author : James Hankins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139827480
The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy, published in 2007, provides an introduction to a complex period of change in the subject matter and practice of philosophy. The philosophy of the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries is often seen as transitional between the scholastic philosophy of the Middle Ages and modern philosophy, but the essays collected here, by a distinguished international team of contributors, call these assumptions into question, emphasizing both the continuity with scholastic philosophy and the role of Renaissance philosophy in the emergence of modernity. They explore the ways in which the science, religion and politics of the period reflect and are reflected in its philosophical life, and they emphasize the dynamism and pluralism of a period which saw both new perspectives and enduring contributions to the history of philosophy. This will be an invaluable guide for students of philosophy, intellectual historians, and all who are interested in Renaissance thought.
Author : Jenifer Neils,Dylan K. Rogers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108484558
This book is a comprehensive introduction to ancient Athens, its topography, monuments, inhabitants, cultural institutions, religious rituals, and politics. Drawing from the newest scholarship on the city, this volume examines how the city was planned, how it functioned, and how it was transformed from a democratic polis into a Roman urbs.
Author : Shadi Bartsch,Kirk Freudenburg,Cedric Littlewood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107052208
A lively and accessible guide to the rich literary, philosophical and artistic achievements of the notorious age of Nero.
Author : Jonathan Barnes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1995-01-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521422949
The most accessible and comprehensive guide to Aristotle currently available.
Author : Kirk Freudenburg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0521803594
Satire as a distinct genre of writing was first developed by the Romans in the second century BCE. Regarded by them as uniquely 'their own', satire held a special place in the Roman imagination as the one genre that could address the problems of city life from the perspective of a 'real Roman'. In this Cambridge Companion an international team of scholars provides a stimulating introduction to Roman satire's core practitioners and practices, placing them within the contexts of Greco-Roman literary and political history. Besides addressing basic questions of authors, content, and form, the volume looks to the question of what satire 'does' within the world of Greco-Roman social exchanges, and goes on to treat the genre's further development, reception, and translation in Elizabethan England and beyond. Included are studies of the prosimetric, 'Menippean' satires that would become the models of Rabelais, Erasmus, More, and (narrative satire's crowning jewel) Swift.
Author : Joy Porter,Kenneth M. Roemer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005-07-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521822831
An informative and wide-ranging overview of Native American literature from the 1770s to present day.
Author : Alessandro Schiesaro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139440219
This monograph is devoted to the most important of Seneca's tragedies, Thyestes, which has had a notable influence on Western drama from Shakespeare to Antonin Artaud. Thyestes emerges as the mastertext of 'Silver' Latin poetry, and as an original reflection on the nature of theatre comparable to Euripides' Bacchae. The book analyses the complex structure of the play, its main themes, the relationship between Seneca's vibrant style and his obsession with dark issues of revenge and regression. Substantial discussion of other plays - especially Trojan Women, Oedipus and Medea - permits a comprehensive re-evaluation of Seneca's poetics and its pivotal role in post-Virgilian literature. Topics explored include the relationship between Seneca's plays and his theory of the emotions, the connection between poetic inspiration and the Underworld, and Seneca's treatment of time, which, in a perspective informed by psychoanalysis, is seen as a central preoccupation of Senecan tragedy.
Author : C. E. W. Steel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521509930
A comprehensive and authoritative account of one of the greatest and most prolific writers of classical antiquity.
Author : Andreas Heil,Gregor Damschen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 895 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004217089
The volume contains a comprehensive survey of each genuine or attributed work of Seneca in the style of concise handbook articles (“Works”). The cultural background (“Context”) and the most important problem areas within the philosophic and tragic corpus of Seneca are dealt with in fuller presentations (“Topics”).
Author : Brad Inwood
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781603840477
This volume gathers together the most important evidence about Stoic thought surviving from the ancient world. It is an expanded version of the section on Stoicism in Inwood and Gerson's Hellenistic Philosophy, consolidating related texts into larger, more continuous selections, adding material on the skeptical attack on Stoicism, and a short section that introduces the reader to some of the more interesting texts on Stoic ethics from the Roman imperial period. Inwood and Gerson provide lucid, accurate translations, an Introduction that sets the works included in historical and philosophical context, a glossary of terms, a glossary of philosophers and philosophical sources, an index of passages translated, and a subject index.
Author : Jill Kraye
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1996-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0521436249
From the fourteenth to the seventeenth century, humanism played a key role in European culture. Beginning as a movement based on the recovery, interpretation and imitation of ancient Greek and Roman texts and the archaeological study of the physical remains of antiquity, humanism turned into a dynamic cultural programme, influencing almost every facet of Renaissance intellectual life. The fourteen essays in this 1996 volume deal with all aspects of the movement, from language learning to the development of science, from the effect of humanism on biblical study to its influence on art, from its Italian origins to its manifestations in the literature of More, Sidney and Shakespeare. A detailed biographical index, and a guide to further reading, are provided. Overall, The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism provides a comprehensive introduction to a major movement in the culture of early modern Europe.
Author : David Sedley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521775035
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