Authors: John Henderson, Henderson John
ISBN-13: 9780521829441, ISBN-10: 0521829445
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: March 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
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).
John Henderson explores three letters of Seneca describing visits to Roman villas.
Acknowledgements | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | Twelve steps to haven. Book 1: Letters 1-11 | 6 |
2 | Dropping in (it) at Seneca's. With text and translation of Letter 12 | 19 |
3 | You can get used to anything. Books 2-10 | 28 |
4 | The long and winding mode. Books 14-20+ | 40 |
5 | Booking us in. Letters 84-88 | 46 |
6 | Now and then; here and there: at Scipio's. Text and translation of Letter 86 | 53 |
7 | Bound for Vatia's. Text and translation of Letter 55 | 62 |
8 | Knocking the self: genuflexion, villafication, Vatia's. Letter 55 | 67 |
9 | The world of the bath-house: Scipio's. Scipio in Letter 86; with: Horace's common scents | 93 |
10 | The appliance of science: Scipio's. Aegialus in Letter 86; with: Virgil's funny farm | 119 |
11 | Shafts of light: transplantation and transfiguration. Metaphorics and visuality in Letter 86 | 139 |
12 | Still olive, still Scipio's. Digging Scipio in Letter 86; with: the dirt of Seneca | 158 |
App. 1 | Here to stay. Places and persons named in the Epistulae Morales | 171 |
App. 2 | From: Letter 86 To: A Dying Light in Corduba | 175 |
Bibliography | 177 | |
Indexes | 184 |