Seneca the Elder (Cambridge Classical Studies) - Image 1

£67.21

Cambridge University Press Seneca the Elder (Cambridge Classical Studies)

Name: Seneca the Elder (Cambridge Classical Studies)
Brand: Cambridge University Press
Price: 67.21 GBP
Availability: InStock

Words, Language & Grammar

About as cheap as it gets. The only time it was cheaper was 2 months ago.

£67 today · all-time low £65 (May 2026) · usually the usual

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 44 days · 44 data points (no recent data)

Historical

Generating forecast…

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 44 days • 4 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £65 (18 days, 40.9%)

Price range: £65 - £68

Price levels: 4 different prices over 44 days

Description

A feature of Roman rhetorical education under the early empire was the dominance of the declamatio - the declamation on a mythological, historical or quasi-legal theme designed in the first place to train students for the law courts and political debating but indulged in for its own sake by amateurs as well as students and teachers of rhetoric. The elder Seneca, father of the philosopher and dramatist, compiled an anthology of the often bizarre utterances of the declaimers. Janet Fairweather's 1981 book is a detailed study of the anthologist's literary criticism. From Seneca's prefactory descriptions of declaimers and passing remarks on their work, she derives evidence for all the stages in the preparation and delivery of declamations; and from the same source, in conjunction with select declamatory extracts, she shows that rhetorical taste in Seneca's time was not so uniform as is commonly supposed.

Product Specifications

Brand: Cambridge University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0521231019
Category: Books > Subjects > Reference > Words, Language & Grammar
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 07 May 1981
Listed Since: 04 January 2007

Barcode

No barcode data available

Cambridge University Press Seneca the Elder (Cambridge Classical Studies)

About as cheap as it gets. The only time it was cheaper was 2 months ago.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Seneca: Selected Letters (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)

Seneca and the Self

Tacitus: Dialogus de oratoribus (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)

Tragedy, Rhetoric, and the Historiography of Tacitus' "Annales"

Cicero: De Oratore Book III (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)

Roman Political Thought: From Cicero to Augustine

Roman Political Thought: From Cicero to Augustine

Roman Republican Theatre: A History

Octavia: A Play Attributed to Seneca: 41 (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, Series Number 41)

Brill's Companion to Seneca: Philosopher and Dramatist (Brill's Companions in Classical Studies)

Mass Oratory Pol Power Lt Roman Rep: 0

Classical Literary Careers and their Reception

Lucian: A Selection (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)

Satires of Rome: Threatening Poses from Lucilius to Juvenal

The Art of Rhetoric in Alexandria: Its Theory and Practice in the Ancient World

Antike Rhetorik im Zeitalter des Humanismus: 182 (Beiträge Zur Altertumskunde)

An Introduction to Classical Rhetoric: Essential Readings

Attic Oratory and Performance (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies)

Brill's Companion to Cicero: Oratory and Rhetoric (Brill's Companions in Classical Studies)

Shakespeare and the Classics

Reading Roman Comedy: Poetics and Playfulness in Plautus and Terence (The W. B. Stanford Memorial Lectures)

Studies in the Rhetoric of Fiction

Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens: 74 (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 74)

Plato: Protagoras (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)