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Morals and Villas in Seneca's Letters: Places to Dwell »

Book cover image of Morals and Villas in Seneca's Letters: Places to Dwell by John Henderson

Authors: John Henderson, Henderson John
ISBN-13: 9780521829441, ISBN-10: 0521829445
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: March 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: John Henderson

John Henderson is Reader in Latin Literature at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of King's College. His recent books include: Pliny's Statue: The Letters, Self-Portraiture & Classical Art (2002), Telling Tales on Caesar: Roman Stories from Phaedrus (2001), Writing down Rome: Comedy, Satire, and Other Offences (1999), and Fighting for Rome: Poets and Caesars, History and Civil War (1998). Aesop's Human Zoo: Roman Stories About Our Bodies, and HORTVS: The Roman Gardening Book, are both forthcoming (2004).

Book Synopsis

John Henderson explores three letters of Seneca describing visits to Roman villas.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction1
1Twelve steps to haven. Book 1: Letters 1-116
2Dropping in (it) at Seneca's. With text and translation of Letter 1219
3You can get used to anything. Books 2-1028
4The long and winding mode. Books 14-20+40
5Booking us in. Letters 84-8846
6Now and then; here and there: at Scipio's. Text and translation of Letter 8653
7Bound for Vatia's. Text and translation of Letter 5562
8Knocking the self: genuflexion, villafication, Vatia's. Letter 5567
9The world of the bath-house: Scipio's. Scipio in Letter 86; with: Horace's common scents93
10The appliance of science: Scipio's. Aegialus in Letter 86; with: Virgil's funny farm119
11Shafts of light: transplantation and transfiguration. Metaphorics and visuality in Letter 86139
12Still olive, still Scipio's. Digging Scipio in Letter 86; with: the dirt of Seneca158
App. 1Here to stay. Places and persons named in the Epistulae Morales171
App. 2From: Letter 86 To: A Dying Light in Corduba175
Bibliography177
Indexes184

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