Seneca saepa noster. Articles de Mireille Armisen-Marchetti sur l’oeuvre de Sénèque (1981-2013) réunis en son honneur

As a specialist of international renown of Seneca, Mireille Armisen-Marchetti has published during her scholarly career (1976-2010), besides her magistral thesis which marks a milestone in Senecan studies (Sapientiae facies. Étude sur les images de Sénèque, Paris, 1989), many articles about this author, these studies, ground-breaking at that time, are still authoritative nowadays. The present volume contains thirty-one papers among the most important ones, organized by thematic chapters in order to provide a comprehensive monography on the philosopher. The studies collected here help us to understand better Seneca’s literary universe and his predilection for images, the functioning of his philosophical system as “spiritual advising”, as well as the literary and ethical conceptions that have influenced the writing of his tragedies. At the crossroads of history of ideas and literary history, this book recreates the intellectual personality, with all its coherence and subtlety, of a great thinker of Antiquity and one of the greatest writers of Western History, and invites us to a fascinating travel through his works, from the Epistulae ad Lucilium to Phaedra, and from the Naturales quaestiones to the treatise De clementia.