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Seneca: A Life

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Philosopher, dramatist, rhetorician, Stoic and pragmatist, Seneca was one of the most contradictory figures in ancient Rome, embracing a stern ascetic morality while amassing a fortune under Nero and eventually committing suicide. This definitive biography reveals a life lived perilously in the gap between ideals and reality.

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Weight 0.202 kg
Dimensions 1.5 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Paperback
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Pages

272
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Year Published

2016-3-3
Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

0718193504
About The Author

Emily Wilson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Classical Studies. She has a BA from Oxford in Classics, an MPhil, also from Oxford, in English Literature (1500-1660), and a PhD from Yale in Classics and Comparative Literature. She is the author of Mocked with Death: Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton and The Death of Sophocles: Hero, Villain, Chatterbox, Saint.
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Seneca lived in a world where dissimulation was a way of life, and the confusion between reality and failure woven into the very fabric of the state. It is the mirror he holds up to it which makes him such a great and unsettling writer, and which Wilson's fine biography does so much to explicate
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Absorbing

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