Morals and Villas in Seneca's Letters: Places to Dwell

by John Henderson

Book Overview

John Henderson explores three letters of Seneca describing visits to Roman villas, and surveys the whole collection to show how these villas work as designs for contrasting lives. Seneca's own place is ageing drastically; a recent Epicurean's paradise is a seductive oasis away from the dangers of Nero's Rome; once a fortress of the dour Rome of yesteryear, the legendary Scipio's lair was now a shrine to the old morality: Seneca revels in its primitive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521036224
• ISBN13: 9780521036221
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"