The empire of the self
Subtitle: self-command and political speech in Seneca and Petronius
By: Christopher Star
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781421406749; 9781421407265
Subjects: Latin literature; Criticism and interpretation; Politics in literature; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Soul-shaping speech; title: Senecan philosophy and command psychology; title: Commanding constantia in Senecan tragedy; title: Self-address in the Satyricon; title: Soul-revealing speech; title: Political speech in De clementia; title: Soul-revealing speech and political satire in the Apocolocyntosis and the Satyricon; title: Writing, body and money.