Název: Portraits of aging and old age in Seneca's Moral Epistles
Zdrojový dokument: Graeco-Latina Brunensia. 2020, roč. 25, č. 2, s. 73-85
Rozsah
73-85
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ISSN1803-7402 (print)2336-4424 (online)
Trvalý odkaz (DOI): https://doi.org/10.5817/GLB2020-2-6
Trvalý odkaz (handle): https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/143316
Type: Článek
Jazyk
anglicky
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 International
Abstrakt(y)
In the Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, written near the end of his life, Seneca frequently allies meditation on death – a theme that, as a Stoic, had always deserved his special attention – with reflections on the passage of time, the meaning of human existence, and the meaning of life in its different phases: childhood and youth, adulthood and old age. In this paper, I will study Seneca's most significant portraits of aging and old age, and articulate them via the literary anthropology that characterizes the Epistulae and his other works in general.
Note
- A preliminary version of this article was delivered at "Age, Aging and Old Age in Greco-Roman Antiquity", Gothenburg (Sweden), 2017. This article was written as part of my postdoctoral research on Seneca, funded by the FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (SFRH/BPD/117758/2016).
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