Seneca’s Epistolary «Responsum»
The «De Ira» as Parody
©2001
Thesis
214 Pages
Series:
Studien zur klassischen Philologie, Volume 124
Summary
Although Seneca’s De Ira has long been considered a standard Stoic approach to anger in dialogue form, its structure more closely approximates that of an epistle. The prevalence of legal terminology as well as numerous and recurrent legal contexts suggest that Seneca used the Epistolary Responsum of the jurisconsults as his model instead of the philosophical dialogue. Seneca’s criticism of the delict Iniuria in a legal genre disguised as a Stoic moral essay parodies the Responsum and, as a consequence, effectively reveals law as a convenient pretext and source of a social ill it purports to remedy.
Details
- Pages
- 214
- Publication Year
- 2001
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9783631362136
- Language
- English
- Published
- Frankfurt/M., Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2001. 214 pp.
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