The Pseudo-Senecan Seneca on the Good Old Days: The Motif of the Golden Age in the Octavia.
The article addresses Seneca the Younger's soliloquy in general and the sequence of ages more specifically in the Roman tragedy "Octavia." Topics discussed include investigation on the reason the playwright makes his protagonist so deeply interested in the idea of the Four Ages, argument on the use...
| Publicado en: | Scripta Classica Israelica Vol. 36; pp. 67 - 80 |
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Israeli Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies
2017
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| Sumario: | The article addresses Seneca the Younger's soliloquy in general and the sequence of ages more specifically in the Roman tragedy "Octavia." Topics discussed include investigation on the reason the playwright makes his protagonist so deeply interested in the idea of the Four Ages, argument on the use by the dramatis persona Seneca of the motif of the Golden Age, and connection between emperor and society in Seneca's treatise De Clementia. |
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