@inbook{789f2612f17b4bd4bb211a60ba6d6c5d,
title = "Funerals, Faces and Hellenistic Philosophy: On the Origins of the Concept of Persons in Rome",
abstract = "In this chapter two phases of the origins and development of the concept of person in ancient Rome are discussed. In a prephilosophical phase, the origins of the word can be traced back to the Etruscans and the Greeks, respectively. The Latin word persona is most likely of Etruscan origin. At first the Romans used this word as a religious term. At the end of the second century BCE it came to be applied in the context of the Greek theatre, too. Panaetius, in his “Romanized” version of Stoicism, as preserved and developed by Cicero, reinterpreted the Greek and Etruscan understanding of person in the sense of the general and particular roles that human beings take on in life. Seneca, but more especially Epictetus and Boethius, developed these interpretations further, each with a different emphasis: Epictetus discussed person from an internal point of view, whereas Boethius formulated his influential definition of person in the debate on the nature of Christ.",
keywords = "person, Epictetus, Boethius, mask, funeral, theatre, Panaetius, Cicero, science, Seneca",
author = "R. Brouwer",
year = "2019",
doi = "10.1093/oso/9780190634384.003.0002",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780190634391",
series = "Oxford Philosophical Concepts",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
pages = "19--45",
editor = "Antonia Lolordo",
booktitle = "Persons",
}