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Lo sguardo in seconda persona. Verecundia in Seneca, ad Lucilium 11

Marchese Rosa

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verecundia Seneca respect shame moral gazeSettore L-FIL-LET/04 - Lingua E Letteratura Latina

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Where does verecundia stand in the ancient Rome? As Robert Kaster said, it stands close to the pudor, working in face-to-face relations “between respect and shame”. How the verecundia concept took part as a moral feeling is clearly explained in Seneca’s Letter 11 to Lucilius. In this text the philosopher offers a complex, concise portrait of verecundia, allowing to see that it is, to all intents and purposes, a social emotion, as well as an useful behavior to explain the birth of a moral gaze in “second person”.

https://hdl.handle.net/10447/578235