Born circa 4 B.C., Seneca was witness to what the Chinese call “interesting times” the emperors Caligula and Claudius, the Apostle Paul, the British freedom fighters Caratacus and Boudicca were all his contemporaries. professor of classics at Bard College, gives us a fresh and empathetic exploration of a man who, tantalizingly, seems destined to stay just out of reach. Teasing out these conundrums, Romm, the James H. The central question of James Romm’s “Dying Every Day” is this: When we confront this tragic Roman wordsmith, tutor to the emperor Nero (and, some argue, the power behind that terrible throne), who stares back at us? Is it a tyrannodidaskalos, a tyrant-teacher? Is he the ultimate exemplar of Stoicism, a would-be philosopher king? Or is Seneca simply an accretion of history, a phantom constructed to fit our ravening for heroes, for antiheroes and for the sensational in the stories of antiquity? Painted by Rubens, memorialized by Dante in his first circle of hell, gilded into medieval manuscripts alongside Plato and Aristotle, Seneca has come to represent the perils of proximity to absolute power. OL16966169W Page_number_confidence 87.50 Pages 330 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.17 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220104095154 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 237 Scandate 20211215161840 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780307596871 Tts_version 4.The name Seneca brings a particular image to mind: a gaunt, half-naked old man, glaring wildly, his veins open, his lifeblood seeping into the small bath beneath him after he was forced to commit suicide. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 04:09:31 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA40315207 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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