The deaths of Seneca
By: James Ker.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 411
ISBN-13: 9780195387032
Subjects: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, -- ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D; Nero, -- Emperor of Rome, -- 37-68 -- Friends and associates; Statesmen -- Rome -- Biography; Philosophers -- Rome -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Description: The forced suicide of Seneca, former adviser to Nero, is one of the most tortured death scenes from classical antiquity. Here James Ker offers a comprehensive cultural history of Seneca's death scene, situating it in the Roman imagination and tracing its many subsequent interpretations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Three death-descriptions : Tacitus, Suetonius, Cassius Dio; title: Neronian exits : writing death into history; title: The man of many genres in his death; title: Consolations on the departure of the consoler; title: A closing scene in the theaters of ethics, tragedy, and history; title: End of a series : death in epistolary time; title: Tracing the tradition; title: Forced suicide and the bodily paths to libertas; title: Passing into memory : Seneca's Imago and its reproduction; title: Places suburban and serious : the ruins of Seneca and Scipio.