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Paperback. Condition: Like new. Like new softcover in printed wraps. 8vo. (5.5 x 0.44 x 8.5 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. Includes text, translation, notes and an index. 208 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. L. Annaeus Seneca, the elder (his son was the philosopher), lived c. 55?? - AD 40. His history of his own times from the outbreak of the civil war is sadly lost. What does survive are parts of his Oratorum sententiae, divisiones, colores - a collection of extracts from declaimers whom he heard during his lifetime, interspersed with his own digressions and comments. There were ten books of Controversiae, five surviving, and at least two of suasoriae, of which one remains. Edward's edition of the latter, first published in 1928, remains the only annotated edition in English and the only one (since 1909) in any European language; it has long been unavailable and has never before appeared in paperback. It provides both text and facing translation, full annotation and a useful introductory essay, which offers trenchant correction of earlier suggestions that Seneca was no more than a professional hack teacher of rhetoric, and that his Latinity is inferior and unclassical. The edition will be most useful to scholars and students concerned with ancient rhetoric and with Augustan developments in classical Latin.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This work contains a copy of Seneca's "Suasoriae", along with facing translation, full annotation and a useful introductory essay which offers an argument against suggestions that Seneca was no more than a professional hack teacher of rhetoric and that his Latinity is inferior and unclassical. This work contains a copy of Seneca's "Suasoriae", along with facing translation, full annotation and a useful introductory essay which offers an argument against suggestions that Seneca was no more than a professional hack teacher of rhetoric and that his Latinity is inferior and unclassical. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This work contains a copy of Seneca's "Suasoriae", along with facing translation, full annotation and a useful introductory essay which offers an argument against suggestions that Seneca was no more than a professional hack teacher of rhetoric and that his Latinity is inferior and unclassical. This work contains a copy of Seneca's "Suasoriae", along with facing translation, full annotation and a useful introductory essay which offers an argument against suggestions that Seneca was no more than a professional hack teacher of rhetoric and that his Latinity is inferior and unclassical. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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