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Healing Grief A Commentary on Seneca's Consolatio ad Marciam

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Is it possible to overcome grief after years of mourning? What should a Roman woman do to regain control of her thoughts? This book - which is the first commentary in English on Seneca's Consolation to Marcia in forty years, with a revision of the Latin text - explores Seneca's answers to...

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Main Author: Tutrone, Fabio (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2022
Series:CICERO - STUDIES ROMAN THOUGHT RECEPTION OA
Subjects:
Literary studies: classical, early & medieval
Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500
L. Annaeus Seneca
consolation literature
Roman Stoicism
antiquity
emotions
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Summary:Is it possible to overcome grief after years of mourning? What should a Roman woman do to regain control of her thoughts? This book - which is the first commentary in English on Seneca's Consolation to Marcia in forty years, with a revision of the Latin text - explores Seneca's answers to these and other existential questions, shedding new light on Seneca's appropriation of the ancient genre of consolation for the sake of Stoic moral therapy.
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (365 p.)
ISBN:9783111014845
9783111007427
9783111014890
Access:Open Access

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