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Author Romm, James S.

Title Dying every day : Seneca at the court of Nero / James Romm.

Publication Info. New York : Alred A. Knopf, 2014.

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 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  188 ROMM    Check Shelf
Edition First Edition.
Description xix, 290 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The two Senecas -- Suicide (I) -- Regicide -- Fratricide -- Matricide -- Maritocide -- Holocaust -- Suicide (II) -- Euthanasia.
Summary Explores the moral struggles, political intrigues and violent vendettas that enmeshed Seneca, the ancient Roman writer and philosopher, in the brutal daily lives of the imperial family and the regime of his student, Nero.
Subject Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Nero, Emperor of Rome, 37-68.
Nero Römisches Reich, Kaiser, 37-68. (DE-588)118586998
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus Philosophus, v4-65. (DE-588)118613200
Seneca, L. Annaeus (Lucius Annaeus), approximately 4 v. Chr.-65 n. Chr. (NL-LeOCL)068825048
Nero, (Claudius Caesar), Emperor of Rome, 37-68. (NL-LeOCL)070036691
Statesmen -- Rome -- Biography.
Philosophers -- Rome -- Biography.
Rome -- History -- Nero, 54-68.
ISBN 9780307596871 (hardcover)
0307596877 (hardcover)
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