The Artful Moralist

A Study of Seneca's Epistolary Style

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ID9664833
AutoresRobert Coleman, Robert E Coleman (0000-0002-1551-9871, autor correspondente)
Ano1974
Volume24
Fascículo2
Páginas276-289
Data de publicação1974-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Classical Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0009-8388 • E-ISSN: 1471-6844
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s000983880003281x
OpenAlexW2154825983
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas46

All the extant letters of Seneca are addressed to a single correspondent, Lucilius. They are among the latest of his writings and are entirely taken up with the discussion of philosophical questions, principally to do with Ethics1—hence the title Epistulae Morales . The 115th letter could, one supposes, be taken to exemplify this particular kind of epistolary composition at its best. The objectof the following discussion is twofold: first by a detailed analysis of the letterit self to establish precisely in what its distinctive literary excellence consists, and secondly by attending to its more representative qualities to form a clearer view of the genre to which it belongs

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