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Seneca s Affective Cosmos
Author | : Chiara Graf |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2024-05-07 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780198907022 |
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What is the role of emotion in the scientific, philosophical, and literary works of Seneca the Younger? Scholarship on Seneca has often historically treated emotion as an obstacle to moral progress in his thought--an inherently treacherous aspect of human experience which must be eradicated via reason. However, a growing body of scholarly work has come to recognize that Seneca made room for emotions in his philosophy, framing such sensations as fear and shame as ethically beneficial in certain circumstances. Seneca's Affective Cosmos: Subjectivity, Feeling, and Knowledge in the Natural Questions and Beyond extends such arguments to arrive at a surprising conclusion: Seneca is prepared to harness towards therapeutic and didactic ends even the extreme and misguided emotions that result from our flawed understanding of the universe. Affect plays a particularly important role for the Senecan proficiens, the morally and intellectually imperfect student of Stoicism. Whereas the idealized figure of the Senecan wise man can achieve ethical progress through reason alone, the proficiens' compromised understanding of the world often prevents him from doing so. When reason fails him, the Senecan proficiens can harness his emotions towards moral progress. For instance, in Seneca's meteorological treatise Natural Questions, stupefaction and anxiety are presented as paradoxical sources of courage in the face of death. Similarly, in the tragedy Trojan Women, grief and hopelessness provide the protagonist Andromache with unexpected solace. Chiara Graf reaches these conclusions by placing a variety of Senecan texts in dialogue with modern works on affect theory, a school of thought that has gained popularity in the Humanities but remains underexplored in the Classics.
A Companion to the Neronian Age
Author | : Emma Buckley,Martin Dinter |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 519 |
Release | : 2013-05-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781118316535 |
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An authoritative overview and helpful resource for students and scholars of Roman history and Latin literature during the reign of Nero. The first book of its kind to treat this era, which has gained in popularity in recent years Makes much important research available in English for the first time Features a balance of new research with established critical lines Offers an unusual breadth and range of material, including substantial treatments of politics, administration, the imperial court, art, archaeology, literature and reception studies Includes a mix of established scholars and groundbreaking new voices Includes detailed maps and illustrations
Intratextuality and Latin Literature
Author | : Stephen Harrison,Stavros Frangoulidis,Theodore D. Papanghelis |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 2018-10-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783110611021 |
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Recent years have witnessed an increased interest in classical studies in the ways meaning is generated through the medium of intertextuality, namely how different texts of the same or different authors communicate and interact with each other. Attention (although on a lesser scale) has also been paid to the manner in which meaning is produced through interaction between various parts of the same text or body of texts within the overall production of a single author, namely intratextuality. Taking off from the seminal volume on Intratextuality: Greek and Roman Textual Relations, edited by A. Sharrock / H. Morales (Oxford 2000), which largely sets the theoretical framework for such internal associations within classical texts, this collective volume brings together twenty-seven contributions, written by an international team of experts, exploring the evolution of intratextuality from Late Republic to Late Antiquity across a wide range of authors, genres and historical periods. Of particular interest are also the combined instances of intra- and intertextual poetics as well as the way in which intratextuality in Latin literature draws on reading practices and critical methods already theorized and operative in Greek antiquity.
Stoicism and Emotion
Author | : Margaret R. Graver |
Publsiher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 530 |
Release | : 2011-04-25 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9781459618602 |
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On the surface, stoicism and emotion seem like contradictory terms. Yet the Stoic philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome were deeply interested in the emotions, which they understood as complex judgments about what we regard as valuable in our surroundings. Stoicism and Emotion shows that they did not simply advocate an across-the-board suppression of feeling, as stoicism implies in today's English, but instead conducted a searching examination of these powerful psychological responses, seeking to understand what attitude toward them expresses the deepest respect for human potential.
Hope Joy and Affection in the Classical World
Author | : Ruth Rothaus Caston,Robert A. Kaster |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780190278298 |
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"For all the interest in emotions in antiquity, there has been little study of positive emotions. This collection aims to redress the balance with eleven studies of emotions like hope, joy, good will and mercy that show some of the complexity these emotions play in ancient literature and thought"--Provided by publisher.
The Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy
Author | : Myrto Garani,David Konstan,Gretchen Reydams-Schils |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 649 |
Release | : 2023-03-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199328383 |
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"Several decades of scholarship by now have demonstrated that Roman thinkers have developed in new and stimulating directions the systems of thought they inherited from the Greeks, and that, taken together, they offer a range of perspectives that are of philosophical interest in their own right. This collection of essays pursues a maximally inclusive approach, covering not only authors such as Augustine, but also poets or historians. It pays attention to the mode in which these works were written (giving rhetoric too its due) and their often conscious reflections on the process of translating, or transferring Greek ideas to Roman contexts"--
The Ethics of the Family in Seneca
Author | : Liz Gloyn |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2017-02-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781107145474 |
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Model mothers -- A band of brothers -- The mystery of marriage -- The desirable contest between fathers and sons -- The imperfect imperial family -- Rewriting the family
From Stoicism to Platonism
Author | : Troels Engberg-Pedersen |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 2017-02-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107166196 |
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This book explores the process during 100 BCE-100 CE by which dualistic Platonism became the reigning school in philosophy.