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Magical Tome
- First published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Pages
- 411 pages
- ISBN
- 9780195387032
The deaths of Seneca
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About this book
The forced suicide of Seneca, former adviser to Nero, is one of the most tortured death scenes from classical antiquity. Here James Ker offers a comprehensive cultural history of Seneca's death scene, situating it in the Roman imagination and tracing its many subsequent interpretations.
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