Dead Eyes and Blank Faces
John Henderson: Expression under Nero, 2 April 1998
Dissidence and Literature under Nero: The Price of Rhetoricisation
by Vasily Rudich.
Routledge, 408 pp., £50, March 1997,0 415 09501 8 Show More
by Vasily Rudich.
Routledge, 408 pp., £50, March 1997,
“... actually happened than Gerrit van Honthorst, the 17th-century painter of the scene sprayed across Vasily Rudich’s book-jacket; instead, there is a competition to represent the stoical Stoic’s moment of truth as part of the discourse of resistance to the force majeure of (any) dictatorship. The death of Seneca lays out guidelines for how history can ... ”
