De otio. De brevitate vitae. Edited by G.D. Williams. - Seneca
De otio; De brevitate vitae (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)
KORTE INHOUD
'Gareth W(illiams)'s contribution to the Cambridge green-and-yellow series is a welcome resource that (...) does a good job of opening up these texts to readers, from advanced Latin students to specialists. W. draws upon the valuable work on Senecan prose done in recent decades in France and Italy and adds to a small but growing set of resources in English. His subtle analysis of language and argument is never simply an exercise in lexicography or doxography (though it covers such areas incredibly well): his overriding concern is with elucidating the means by which Seneca, through an idealistic and essentially impractical message, nevertheless stimulates the imperial Roman reader to cultivate 'an inner world of the personal' (p.24). (...) W. deserves much praise for this fresh contribution to Senecan studies, and for creating a new option for those in search of a guide to imperial Roman literature, culture, and philosophy. Tacitus remarked that Seneca's voice was well adapted to the ears of his age (Ann. 13.3...
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