The Metaphors of Conscientia in Seneca's Epistles.
Seneca's masterful application of metaphors often illuminates some Stoic technical terminology in contexts, which render them meaningful and familiar to his Roman readers. In this paper I argue that in certain instances, these metaphors are also used to organize whole systems of concepts that refer...
| Publicado en: | Mnemosyne Vol. 76; no. 2; pp. 258 - 287 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2023
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