...), the majority of scholars consider Racine's principal source not to be Euripides's Hippolytus but rather the Latin Phaedra attributed to Seneca.2 The single reference to Seneca in the preface3 is in its own right deceptive in that the citation ("vim [tamen] corpus tulit, "4) which is its motivation seems...

... penser et de dire en ­vous-­même, Partout en ce moment on me bénit, on m aime. (l.1355 60) Burrhus then pursues the point by recalling how Néron once felt such sympathy for a man condemned by the Senate that he hesitated before signing the execution mandate a reminiscence of Seneca s De Clementia, II.2...

..., including those of Ovid, Horace, Seneca, and Tacitus, as well DANIEL BREWER as Lucretius, Homer, Herodotus, Plato, Diodorus, and Polybius. Similarly, Diderot, besides translating Temple Stanyan's Grecian History in 1743, well before the EncycLopedie project took shape, was well read in Greek history...

... molecules. JJe ne meurs donc point. 10. See Elena Russo, "Slander and Glory in the Republic of Letters: Diderot and Seneca Confront Rousseau," Republics of Letters: A Journal for the Study of Knowledge, Politics, and the Arts, no. 1 (May 1, 2009), httprofl.stanford.edu/node/40. 11. See Andrew Clark...

... continue the Italian neoclassical tradition, as illustrated by Vittorio Alfieri (1749 1803), and develop Greek mythological subjects. Tieste (1796), inspired by Seneca and Crébillon s plays on the same topic, pres­ents a horrifying story of adultery, murder, and blood-­drinking involving Thyestes...

... these cases, the concerns evoked are new. There was, of course, nothing new about moralizing on the Library of Alexandria. As early as AD 47, Seneca argued against the idea of expending energy and resources collecting all literature in one place. To Seneca, who emphasized the importance of reading only good...

... he may have been, worries that many of those who are left to their own devices may succumb to melancholy and hallucinations “from the tedium of solitude and excessive reading” ( Ep . 125.12). 28 Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger had written, “Leisure without literature is death and a tomb...

... without arms so as not to offend the king or show any hostility toward him. Here we come to the scene that stages the duke's assassination.6 Once the duke arrives in the Blois castle, he has a strangely dark premonition, recalling Thyestes's bizarre feeling upon returning to his homeland (Seneca 11.404-20...

... of the Holy Land. Between 1308 and 1310, Seneca's Letters to Lucilus were translated for an Angevin lord in the kingdom of Naples by a translator who excuses himself in the preface for his bad French. Et por ce que cil qui les translata ne fu pas de la langue fran~oise, ne de si haut enging ne de si parfonde...

... of this episode" (71); "Contrary to what modern readers might assume (101); "It should be recalled here that Seneca's moral works, and the De beneficiis in particular, were far more widely read and appreciated in the Renaissance than they are in modern times" (110). RABELAIS AND DISENCHANTMENT 193 made available...

... predisposed to virtue), and supposes a parallel with Seneca’s Epistle 44 (172–73). It seems to me that both editorial interventions are consistent with my reading. 30. Guinizzelli’s “aristocratic” theory does not imply that nobility can be extended to anyone who is predisposed to virtue, but more...

... in Cicero and Seneca to refer to the duty of vassal to lord (Le Moyen Age. aDe Hugues Capet Jeanne d'Arc 987-1460 [Paris: Hachette, 1987], p. 100). 10. Georges Duby and Robert Mandrou, Histoire de la civilisation franfaise. I Moyen Age - XVle siecle (Paris: Colin, 1968), p. 75, and Georges Duby, "Les...

... medieval European tradition beginning with the Neapolitan tradition that sees Virgil as magician, we have here a teacher who converses with devils and is the leader of a sort of studium, along with his four Cordoban colleagues: "Seneca et Avicena et Aben Royx et Algacel" (Menendez Pelayo 381...