Author: Del Giovane, Barbara
Title: Seneca, Scipione e l’ombra di Cicerone: a proposito dell’epistola 86
Review/Collection: Prometheus, Vol. 38 No. 1 XXXVIII
Year edition: 2012
Pages: 155-174
Keywords: Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy, Philosophie - Filosofia - Philosophy
Description: The article proposes a reading of the epistle 86 by Seneca, which highlights a Ciceronian literary background. In particular, the narrative incipit seems to get inspiration from a passage of De Senectute, while in the figure of Scipio Africanus, the main character of the epistle, portrayed as the philosopher’s alter ego, it is possible to discover echoes from the famous Somnium Scipionis. [Author].
Works:
Link: https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/prometheus/article/view/927/927
Author initials: Del Giovane 2012
Title: Seneca, Scipione e l’ombra di Cicerone: a proposito dell’epistola 86
Review/Collection: Prometheus, Vol. 38 No. 1 XXXVIII
Year edition: 2012
Pages: 155-174
Keywords: Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy, Philosophie - Filosofia - Philosophy
Description: The article proposes a reading of the epistle 86 by Seneca, which highlights a Ciceronian literary background. In particular, the narrative incipit seems to get inspiration from a passage of De Senectute, while in the figure of Scipio Africanus, the main character of the epistle, portrayed as the philosopher’s alter ego, it is possible to discover echoes from the famous Somnium Scipionis. [Author].
Works:
Link: https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/prometheus/article/view/927/927
Author initials: Del Giovane 2012
