The empire of the self [electronic resource] : self-command and political speech in Seneca and Petronius / Christopher Star.
Publication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.Description: viii, 302 pISBN:- 9781421406749 (hardback : alkaline paper)
- 1421406748 (hardback : alkaline paper)
- 9781421407265 (e-book)
- 870.9/001 23
- PA6029.P64 S73 2012eb

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Soul-shaping speech -- Senecan philosophy and command psychology -- Commanding constantia in Senecan tragedy -- Self-address in the Satyricon -- Soul-revealing speech -- Political speech in De clementia -- Soul-revealing speech and political satire in the Apocolocyntosis and the Satyricon -- Writing, body and money.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.