Flattery in Seneca the Younger

Flattery in Seneca the Younger explores the discourse of flattery in Seneca''s philosophical texts, and analyses the extent to which Seneca developed a theory of adulation. Martina Russo maps a phenomenology of flattery, tracing its external manifestations in Senecan philosophy. The personal practice of flattery displayed in the Ad Polybium and in De clementia along with the ''distant'' exempla of...