Verlag | Penguin UK |
Auflage | 2016 |
Seiten | 272 |
Format | 13 x 19,9 x 1,7 cm |
Gewicht | 206 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
ISBN-10 | 0718193504 |
EAN | 9780718193508 |
Bestell-Nr | 71819350EA |
Philosopher, dramatist, rhetorician, Stoic and pragmatist, Seneca was one of the most contradictory figures in ancient Rome, embracing a stern ascetic morality while amassing a fortune under Nero and eventually committing suicide. This definitive biography reveals a life lived perilously in the gap between ideals and reality.
Rezension:
Seneca lived in a world where dissimulation was a way of life, and the confusion between reality and failure woven into the very fabric of the state. It is the mirror he holds up to it which makes him such a great and unsettling writer, and which Wilson\'s fine biography does so much to explicate Tom Holland Telegraph