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A literary history of Rome in the Silver Age

Note 86 — Chapter I · THE ELDER SENECA: ORATORS AND RHETORICIANS

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Bibliography: Early editions of elder Seneca were combined with his son’s works: sep. edns., by Faber, Par., 1587; Gronov., Leid., 1649; Bursian, Leipz., 1857; Kiessling, Leipz., 1872 and 1913; H. J. Müller, Vienna, 1887; Bornecque (text with Fr. tr.), 2 vols., Par., 1902.

On Seneca and rhetoric (cf. bibliogr. note on Roman educ.): Chassang, De compta post Ciceronem a declamatoribus eloquentia, diss., Par., 1852; Koerber, Ueber d. Rhetor Sen. u. d. röm. Rhetorik seiner Zeit, diss., Marb., 1864; Tivier, De arte declamandi et de Romanis declamatoribus ... diss., Par., 1868; Sander, Der Sprachgebrauch d. Rhet. Ann. Sen., Berl., 1877; Karsten, De elocutione rhetorica qualis invenitur in Ann. Senecae suas. et contr., Rotterd., 1881; Jullien, Les professeurs d. litter. dans l’anc. Rome ... Par., 1885; Cucheval, L’éloquence rom. depuis la mort de Cicéron ... 2 vols., Par., 1893; Simonds, Themes treated by elder Seneca, diss., Baltim., 1896; Boissier, Les écoles de déclamation à Rome in Rev. d. deux Mondes, Oct., 1902, pp. 481-508 (“Schools of Declam. at Rome” in Tacitus and other Studies, 1906); Bornecque, Les déclamations et les déclamateurs d’après Sénèque le père, Lille, 1902.

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