Eschatology in Seneca
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20056300 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gareth Williams (0000-0002-2805-7426, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Pages | 320-332 |
| Publication date | 2021-08-20 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Eschatology in Antiquity (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781315459486-23 |
| OpenAlex | W3194634059 |
| ISBN | 9781315459486 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Senecan eschatology is not so much, or only, shaped by the constraints imposed by the inherited Stoic (and wider philosophical) tradition, or by the uncertainties that that tradition may have prompted in him. Even if his treatment of eschatology shows no great originality or consistency on a purely philosophical front, this chapter aims to show that his literary deployment of the eschatological idea is a very different matter: in his bold experimentation with the idea, and especially in his readiness to mould and adapt it according to his artistic designs in the moment, the chapter argues that he applies it to strikingly idiosyncratic ends in a wide diversity of settings across both his philosophical prose and his tragedies. Particular coverage will be offered of his consolatory prose writings, his tragedy entitled Trojan Women and key excerpts from his Natural Questions and Moral Letters
Art · Eschatology · Literature · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Organic Chemistry Synthesis Methods · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2024 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |