Contents
Introduction
- Han Baltussen
1 Towards a Genre of Consolation -
J. H. D. Scourfield
2 Mourning and Consolation in Greek
Tragedy: The
rejection of comfort - James H. K. O. Chong-Gossard
3 Cicero’s Consolatio ad se: Character,
purpose and impact of a curious treatise - Han Baltussen
4 Seneca the Consoler? A New Reading
of his Consolatory Writings - Marcus Wilson
5 The Consolatio
ad Apollonium: Therapy for the dead - George
Boys-Stones
6 The Grieving Self: Reflections
on Lucian’s On Mourning and the consolatory
tradition - David Konstan
7 Continuity and Transformation
of Ancient Consolation in Augustine of Hippo - Josef Lössl
8 Arabic Ethics and the Limits of
Philosophical Consolation - Peter Adamson |