Seneca the Elder (Hardcover)

Preface; Abbreviations; Part I. The Place of Seneca the Elder in Literary History: 1. Seneca the Elder: a man of his time; 2. The declamatory anthology; 3. The criticism; Part II. Seneca the Elder on the History of Eloquence: 4. Oratory and rhetorical theory up to his own time; 5. The history of declamation; 6. The decline of rhetoric in the early Empire; Part III. Five Aspects of Declamation: the Elder Seneca's Evidence: 7. Inventio; 8. Dispositio; 9. Elocutio; 10. Memoria; 11. Actio; Part IV. The Place of Early Imperial Declamation in Literary History: the Elder Seneca's Evidence: 12. Asianism, Atticism, and the styles of the declaimers; 13. Declamation and literary modernism in the early Empire; Appendix: Clausula usage of Seneca, Latro and Fuscus; Notes; Bibliography; Indexes.