Alex Dressler is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has published articles in journals such as Helios, Ramus and Classical Antiquity, ranging in subject matter from feminism and the ancient novel to exemplarity and ancient rhetoric, and from deconstruction and the sociology of literature to aesthetic theory and psychoanalysis.

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• Introduction; 1. Love, literature, and philosophy; 2. The subjects of personification and personhood; 3. Mothers, sons, and metaphysics: others' agency and self-identity in the Roman stoic notion of a person; 4. Girl behind the woman: Cicero and Tullia, Lucretius and the life of the body-mind; 5. Embodied persons and bodies personified: the phenomenology of perspectives in Seneca, Ep. 121; 6. Nature's property in On Duties 1: the feminine communism of Cicero's radical aesthetics; Conclusion: repairing the text; Editions and commentaries consulted; Bibliography.

Alex Dressler is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has published articles in journals such as Helios, Ramus and Classical Antiquity, ranging in subject matter from feminism and the ancient novel to exemplarity and ancient rhetoric, and from deconstruction and the sociology of literature to aesthetic theory and psychoanalysis.

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• Introduction; 1. Love, literature, and philosophy; 2. The subjects of personification and personhood; 3. Mothers, sons, and metaphysics: others' agency and self-identity in the Roman stoic notion of a person; 4. Girl behind the woman: Cicero and Tullia, Lucretius and the life of the body-mind; 5. Embodied persons and bodies personified: the phenomenology of perspectives in Seneca, Ep. 121; 6. Nature's property in On Duties 1: the feminine communism of Cicero's radical aesthetics; Conclusion: repairing the text; Editions and commentaries consulted; Bibliography.

Alex Dressler is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has published articles in journals such as Helios, Ramus and Classical Antiquity, ranging in subject matter from feminism and the ancient novel to exemplarity and ancient rhetoric, and from deconstruction and the sociology of literature to aesthetic theory and psychoanalysis.

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• Introduction; 1. Love, literature, and philosophy; 2. The subjects of personification and personhood; 3. Mothers, sons, and metaphysics: others' agency and self-identity in the Roman stoic notion of a person; 4. Girl behind the woman: Cicero and Tullia, Lucretius and the life of the body-mind; 5. Embodied persons and bodies personified: the phenomenology of perspectives in Seneca, Ep. 121; 6. Nature's property in On Duties 1: the feminine communism of Cicero's radical aesthetics; Conclusion: repairing the text; Editions and commentaries consulted; Bibliography.