The Gift of Correspondence in Classical Rome: Friendship in Cicero’s Ad Familiares and Seneca’s Moral Epistles PDF
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the gift of correspondence in classical rome Publication of this volume has been made possible in part through the generous support and enduring vision of warren g. moon. THE GIFT OF CORRESPONDENCE IN CLASSICAL ROME Friendship in Cicero’s Ad Familiares and Seneca’s Moral Epistles b a m a n da w il c ox the university of wisconsin press The University of Wisconsin Press 1930 Monroe Street, 3rd Floor Madison, Wisconsin 53711-2059 uwpress.wisc.edu 3 Henrietta Street London WC2E 8LU, England eurospanbookstore.com Copyright © 2012 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any format or by any means, digital, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or conveyed via the Internet or a website without written permission of the University of Wisconsin Press, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles and reviews. Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wilcox, Amanda. The gift of correspondence in classical Rome : friendship in Cicero’s Ad familiares and Seneca’s Moral epistles / Amanda Wilcox. p. cm.—(Wisconsin studies in classics) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-299-28834-1 (pbk. : alk. paper)—ISBN 978-0-299-28833-4 (e-book) 1. Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Epistolae ad familiares. 2. Cicero, Marcus Tullius—Correspondence—Criticism and interpretation. 3. Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.–65 A.D. Epistulae morales ad Lucilium. 4. Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.–65 A.D.—Correspondence—Criticism and interpretation. 5. Authors, Latin—Correspondence. 6. Latin letters—History and criticism. I. Title. II. Series: Wisconsin studies in classics. PA6298.W58 2012 876(cid:2).01—dc23 2011042653 to chris, ben, and nick Extra fortunam est quidquid donatur amicis: quas dederis, solas semper habebis opes. Whatever you give to your friends is beyond fortune’s power. The only wealth you will always have is what you have given away. —martial, Epigrams 5.42.7–8 b contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 3 part one: cicero The Social Life of Letters 1 Euphemism and Its Limits 25 2 Consolation and Competition 40 3 Absence and Increase 64 4 Recommendation 79 part two: seneca Commercium Epistularum: The Gift Refi gured 5 From Practice to Metaphor 99 6 Rehabilitating Friendship 115 b viii contents 7 Redefi ning Identity: Persons, Letters, Friends 132 8 Consolation and Community 157 Notes 175 Bibliography 199 Index 209 Index Locorum 219 b acknowledgments Over the years I have spent writing this book, I have accrued many debts of gratitude, some of which are very large and none of which are fully repayable. Nonetheless, I would like to register my sincere thanks to the institutions and people who have made this work possible. At the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, the Faculty Summer Research Fellowship and McKnight Summer Fel- lowship for the Arts and Humanities underwrote my fi rst eff orts to ree nvision my dissertation as a monograph. The College of Liberal Arts Research Fel- lowship Supplement, which I held in concert with the Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship in 2005–6, enabled a crucial year of leave from teaching and a thorough recasting of the project. Thanks to my colleagues in Classical and Near Eastern Studies and to department chair George Sheets for facili- tating my leave. The book took defi nitive shape during my assistant professor leave from Williams College, in 2009–10, in the congenial tranquility of the Oakley Center for the Social Sciences and Humanities, where I held an Oakley Center Fellowship and the Herbert H. Lehman Fellowship. I thank the other Oakley fellows for their inspiring company and conversation. Thanks, too, to the center’s director, Michael Brown, and to Rosemary Lane for her excellent administrative support. As Lehman fellow, I was charged with consulting an accomplished senior colleague. Heartfelt thanks to Margaret Graver for gra- ciously accepting this task, for her generous and skillful engagement with the project, and for her visit to Williams in challenging weather. Many thanks also go to Patricia Rosenmeyer, both in and out of her guise as a series editor for ix
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