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

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Author: John Henderson

ISBN-10: 0521829445

ISBN-13: 9780521829441

Category: Ancient Letters

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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