Seneca on rhetorical delivery
A summary of Seneca’s ideas was published in English by Sir Roger L’Estrange in 1678. The volume included a rearrangement and summary of Seneca’s books On Benefits, On The Happy Life, On Anger, and On Clemency, as well as Seneca’s 124 epistles to Lucilius. This work went through 37 printings from its first edition to 1799. The height of its popularity was in the 1760s, when in 1764 one of the five editions included several illustrations.
The first four of L’Estrange’s 28 “epistles” collected Seneca’s ideas on rhetorical delivery and style.
A transcription of the first epistle and its facing engraving from the 1764 edition (with paragraph breaks added) can be found here: https://edurhetor.wordpress.com/2016/06/11/seneca-on-rhetorical-delivery/
No comments:
Post a Comment