The Empire of the Self: Self-Command and Political Speech in Seneca and Petronius

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 part i: Soul-Shaping Speech 1 Senecan Philosophy and the Psychology of Command 23 2 Self-Address in Senecan Tragedy 62 3 Self-Address in the Satyricon 84 part ii. Soul-Revealing Speech 4 Political Speech in De clementia 117 5 Soul, Speech, and Politics in the Apocolocyntosis and the Satyricon 140 6 Writing, Body, and Money 171 Epilogue 209 Notes 215 Bibliography 277 Index 295 This page intentionally left blank ...