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Portraits of aging and old age in Seneca's Moral Epistles
| Resumo: | In the Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, written near the end of his life, Seneca frequently allies meditation on death – a theme that, as a Stoic, had always deserved his special attention – with reflections on the passage of time, the meaning of human existence, and the meaning of life in its different phases: childhood and youth, adulthood and old age. In this paper, I will study Seneca’s most significant portraits of aging and old age, and articulate them via the literary anthropology that characterizes the Epistulae and his other works in general. |
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| Autores principais: | Duarte, Ricardo |
| Assunto: | Time Existence Life Age Old age Aging Death Stoicism |
| Ano: | 2020 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
| Resumo: | In the Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, written near the end of his life, Seneca frequently allies meditation on death – a theme that, as a Stoic, had always deserved his special attention – with reflections on the passage of time, the meaning of human existence, and the meaning of life in its different phases: childhood and youth, adulthood and old age. In this paper, I will study Seneca’s most significant portraits of aging and old age, and articulate them via the literary anthropology that characterizes the Epistulae and his other works in general. |
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