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The Cambridge Companion To Seneca: More Information
The Cambridge Companion To Seneca: More Information
The Cambridge Companion To Seneca: More Information
THE CAMBRIDGE
C O M PA N I O N TO
SENECA
EDITED BY
SHADI BARTSCH
University of Chicago
ALESSANDRO SCHI E SA RO
Sapienza University of Rome
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The Cambridge companion to Seneca / edited by Shadi Bartsch, University of
Chicago; Alessandro Schiesaro, Sapienza University of Rome.
pages cm. – (Cambridge companions to literature)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
I S B N 978-1-107-03505-8 (hardback) – IS B N 978-1-107-69421-7 (paperback)
1. Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.–65 A.D. – History
and criticism – Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Bartsch, Shadi, 1966– editor.
II. Schiesaro, Alessandro, 1963– editor.
PA 6675.C 36 2015
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IS B N 978-1-107-03505-8 Hardback
IS B N 978-1-107-69421-7 Paperback
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CONTENTS
Contributors page ix
Seneca: An Introduction 1
S h ad i Bart s c h a n d A l e ssa n d ro S c h i e saro
P a rt I T h e S e n e c a n C o rpus
2 Senecan Tragedy 29
Ch ri s to p h e r T r i n ac t y
Contents
P a rt I I T e x t s a n d C ontexts
P a rt I I I Se n e c a n T e ns io ns
P a rt I V T he Se n e c a n Trad itio n
C on t e n t s
22 Senecan Political Thought from the Middle Ages to Early Modernity 289
P e t e r S tace y
vii
C O N T R I B U TO RS
ix
C on t r i b u to rs