Seneca: Suasoriae

by Lucius Annaeus Senaca

Overview

This work contains a copy of Seneca's "Suasoriae", along with facing translation, full annotation and a useful introductory essay which offers an argument against suggestions that Seneca was no more than a professional hack teacher of rhetoric and that his Latinity is inferior and unclassical.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781853995040
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/01/1998
Series:	Classic Commentaries
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.44(d)

Table of Contents

I. INTRODUCTORY ESSAY Current views of Seneca and his book—Errors and Appreciations. 1, 2
Page ix Origin, Aim and General Form of the Work—its Artistic Setting. 3-6
Page x Theory of Rhetoric in Rome-Rise of Teachers and Schools, Origin, Development, Nature and Popularity of Declamation. 7-11
Page xiii Causes of this Development and Popularity. 12-18
Page xvi Work of the Schools in Detail—Class Procedure—Public Displays and Pupils. 19-22
Page xviii Life of Seneca. 23-27.
Page xxii The Book—Date of writing and publication. 28, 29.
Page xxvi Character of Seneca. 30-34
Page xxvii The Book—Its Present Condition. 35.
Page xxx The Controversiae. 36-40.
Page xxxi The Suasoria. 41.
Page xxxiii Sententiae—Divisiones—Colores. 42-44.
Page xxxiv Conclusion. 45,46.
Page xxxvi THE TEXT AND EDITIONS.
Page xxxvii NOTES ON THE DECLAIMERS.
Page xl BILBIOGRAPHY.
Page xlv LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS.
Page xlvii II. THE TEXT.
Page 1
III. THE TRANSLATION.
Page 39
IV. THE NOTES.
Page 83
INDEX.
Page 157