Seneca, Moral Essays, Volume II: De Consolatione ad.
AN ESSAY ON THE ORIGINS OF LITERARY THEORY By WESLEY TRIMPI This is the first of several essays investigating the continuity of literary theory and of the principles which may account for its development.1 While critical terminologies change as they respond to problems emerging from the immediate historical process, a continuity, nevertheless, may be observed in the necessity for literary.
Seneca is a figure of first importance in both Roman politics and literature. John G. Fitch has thoroughly revised his two-volume edition of Seneca’s Tragedies to take account of the textual and.
The Loeb Classical Library is the only series of books which, through original text and English translation, gives access to our entire Greek and Latin heritage. Convenient and well-printed pocket volumes feature up-to-date text and accurate and literate English translations on each facing page. The editors provide substantive introductions as well as essential critical and explanatory notes.
Paul and Seneca in Dialogue assembles an international group of scholars to compare the philosophical and theological strands in Paul and Seneca's writings, placing them in dialogue with one another. Arguably, no other first-century, non-Christian writer's thoughts resemble Paul's as closely as Seneca's, and scholars have often found value in comparing Pauline concepts with Seneca's writings.
Paul was a contemporary of the younger Seneca, whose Moral Epistles offer a Latin model. On the Greek side, Paul's letters have been compared extensively to the philosophical letters of Plutarch, Galen, and others, as well as the diatribes of Epictetus and Musonius Rufus. Others have compared Paul’s epistolary style to that of the papyrus letters from Egypt, thus placing Paul’s writings at.
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The Pauline Canon Stanley E. Porter. The Pauline letters continue to provoke scholarly discussion. This volume includes papers that raise a variety of questions regarding the canon of the Pauline writings. Some of the essays are more narrowly focused in their intent, sometimes concentrating upon a single dimension related to the Pauline canon, and sometimes upon even a single letter. Others of.