Seneca the Elder, Declamations, 2 vol. / Loeb Classical Library

Loeb Classical Library 463/464, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Declamations (Controversiae, Suasoriae) in two volumes . Translated by Michael Winterbottom.

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  • Condition / Etat: very good, dust jacket with minor shelf wear, small stain / très bon état, minimes traces d'usures, petite tache.
  • Volumes : 2 volumes.
  • Binding / Reliure : original red titled cloth with fine dust jacket, cartonné avec jaquette.
  • Format : In-16 / 17 x 11 cm.
  • Pages : XXXI, 525, 8; 641, 8 pp.
  • Editor : Cambridge, Harvard University Press / London, Heinemann.
  • Date : 1974.
  • Language / Langue: Latin and English on opposite pages / Bilingue latin et anglais.

    Roman secondary education aimed principally at training future lawyers and politicians. Under the late Republic and the Empire, the main instrument was an import from Greece: declamation, the making of practice speeches on imaginary subjects. There were two types of such speeches: controversiae on law-court themes, suasoriae on deliberative topics. On both types a prime source of our knowledge is the work of Lucius Annaeus Seneca, a Spaniard from Cordoba, father of the distinguished philosopher. Towards the end of his long life (?55 BCE–40 CE) he collected together ten books devoted to controversiae (some only preserved in excerpt) and at least one (surviving) of suasoriae.

    These books contained his memories of the famous rhetorical teachers and practitioners of his day: their lines of argument, their methods of approach, their idiosyncrasies, and above all their epigrams. The extracts from the declaimers, though scrappy, throw invaluable light on the influences that coloured the styles of most pagan (and many Christian) writers of the Empire. Unity is provided by Seneca’s own contribution, the lively prefaces, engaging anecdote about speakers, writers and politicians, and brisk criticism of declamatory excess.

    The Loeb Classical Library® is the only existing series of books which, through original text and English translation, gives access to all that is important in Greek and Latin literature. Epic and lyric poetry; tragedy and comedy; history, travel, philosophy, and oratory; the great medical writers and mathematicians; those Church fathers who made particular use of pagan culture—in short, our entire classical heritage is represented here in convenient and well-printed pocket volumes in which an up-to-date text and accurate and literate English translation face each other page by page. The editors provide substantive introductions as well as essential critical and explanatory notes and selective bibliographies.

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Condition Used - Very Good
Language United Kingdom
Illustrated No
Publicaton Date Jan 1, 1974
Year 1974
Author / Cartographer / Photographer Seneca the Elder
Editor Harvard University Press
First edition No
Signed edition No
Signed binding No
Armorial binding No
Binding / Format Hardcover
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