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CAMBRIDGE
GREEK
AND
LATIN
CLASSICS
SENECA
DE OTIO
DE BREVITATE
VITAE
EDITED
BY
G.
D.
WILLIAMS
CAMBRIDGE
GREEK
GENERAL
AND
LATIN
CLASSICS
EDITORS
P. E. EASTERLING
Regius Professor Emenitus of Greek, Unitversity of Cambridge
PuiLiP HARDIE
Corpus Christi Professor of Latin, University of Oxford
RicHARD HUNTER
Regius Professor of Greek, University of Cambrudge
E. J. KENNEY
Kennedy Professor Ementus of Latin, Unwersity of Cambridge
SENECA
DE OTIO
DE BREVITATE VITAE
EDITED
BY
G. D. WILLIAMS
Associate Professor of Classics,
Columbia University, New York
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CONTENTS
Preface
Conventions and abbreviations
Introduction
1. Author and date: iniial problems
2 The Dialogues n context
(@) The Stoic background
(b) The Roman philosophical tradition
(c) From Republic to Empire
3 De otio
(@) The view from above
(b) Date, addressee and related problems
4 De breuitate uitae
(@) Preliminanes
(b) Date and addressee
(c) heme and interpretation
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5 Style and language
(@) Senecan style: context and general tendency
(b) Senecan mannerism, vocabulary, wordplay
6 The transmission of the text
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DE BREVITATE VITAE
Bibliography
Commentary
Indexes
1 General
2 Latin words
3 Greek words
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