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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Declamations
  name:
    name part: Σενέκας ο Πρεσβύτερος
    name part: 54 π.Χ.-39 μ.Χ
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: συγγραφέας.
  name:
    name part: Winterbottom, Michael
    name part: 1934-
    role:
      role term: μεταφραστής.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Ηλεκτρονικά βιβλία
  genre: Ομιλίες, λόγοι κλπ., Λατινικοί
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    place:
      place term: Cambridge, MA
    publisher: Harvard University Press
    date issued: 1974
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: lat
  language:
    language term: lat
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 ηλεκτρονική πηγή (2 τ.)
  abstract: Roman secondary education aimed principally at training future lawyers and politicians. Under the late Republic and the Empire, the main instrument was an import from Greece: declamation, the making of practice speeches on imaginary subjects. There were two types of such speeches: controversiae on law-court themes, suasoriae on deliberative topics. On both types a prime source of our knowledge is the work of Lucius Annaeus Seneca, a Spaniard from Cordoba, father of the distinguished philosopher. Towards the end of his long life (?55 BCE-?40 CE) he collected together ten books devoted to controversiae (some only preserved in excerpt) and at least one (surviving) of suasoriae. These books contained his memories of the famous rhetorical teachers and practitioners of his day: their lines of argument, their methods of approach, their idiosyncrasies, and above all their epigrams. The extracts from the declaimers, though scrappy, throw invaluable light on the influences that coloured the styles of most pagan (and many Christian) writers of the Empire. Unity is provided by Seneca's own contribution, the lively prefaces, engaging anecdote about speakers, writers and politicians, and brisk criticism of declamatory excess.
  table of contents: v. I. Controversiae, books 1-6 -- v. II. Controversiae, books 7-10. Suasoriae. Fragments.
  target audience: general
  note: Seneca the Elder ; with an English translation by M. Winterbottom.
  note: Περιλαμβάνει ευρετήρια.
  note: Κείμενο στα λατινικά με παράλληλη αγγλική μετάφραση.
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Declamations
    name:
      name part: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 55 B.C.-approximately 39 A.D.
    origin info:
      publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1974
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Loeb Classical Library 463-464
  identifier: 9780674995109
  identifier: 9780674995116
  identifier: https://www.loebclassics.com/view/LCL463/1974/volume.xml
  identifier: https://www.loebclassics.com/view/LCL464/1974/volume.xml
  record info:
    record content source: MaCbHUP
    record creation date: 141025
    record change date: 20211001100044.0
    record identifier: hup0000563
    language of cataloging:
      language term: gre