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The empire of the self [electronic resource] : self-command and political speech in Seneca and Petronius / Christopher Star.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.Description: viii, 302 pISBN:
  • 9781421406749 (hardback : alkaline paper)
  • 1421406748 (hardback : alkaline paper)
  • 9781421407265 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 870.9/001 23
LOC classification:
  • PA6029.P64 S73 2012eb
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Contents:
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.
Item type: eBooks
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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.

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