Morals and Villas in Seneca's Letters: Places to Dwell
John Henderson explores three letters of Seneca describing visits to Roman villas, and surveys the whole collection of 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 is now a shrine to the old morality: Seneca revels in its primitive bath-house, dark and cramped, before...
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John Henderson explores three letters of Seneca describing visits to Roman villas.
AcknowledgementsIntroduction11Twelve steps to haven. Book 1: Letters 1-1162Dropping in (it) at Seneca's. With text and translation of Letter 12193You can get used to anything. Books 2-10284The long and winding mode. Books 14-20+405Booking us in. Letters 84-88466Now and then; here and there: at Scipio's. Text and translation of Letter 86537Bound for Vatia's. Text and translation of Letter 55628Knocking the self: genuflexion, villafication, Vatia's. Letter 55679The world of the bath-house: Scipio's. Scipio in Letter 86; with: Horace's common scents9310The appliance of science: Scipio's. Aegialus in Letter 86; with: Virgil's funny farm11911Shafts of light: transplantation and transfiguration. Metaphorics and visuality in Letter 8613912Still olive, still Scipio's. Digging Scipio in Letter 86; with: the dirt of Seneca158App. 1Here to stay. Places and persons named in the Epistulae Morales171App. 2From: Letter 86 To: A Dying Light in Corduba175Bibliography177Indexes184
