De tranquillitate animi, 9.6

Item

Text Category
Literature: prose
Century Range
Location of Display
Author
Seneca the Younger
Reference
De tranquillitate animi, 9.6
Quotation
… iam enim inter balnearia et thermas bybliotheca quoque ut necessarium domus ornamentum expolitur.
Part of Speech
Type of Thing Ornamented
Architecture: Building: Domestic Structure: Interior
Object/ Person Ornamented
A house
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Architecture: Building: Domestic Structure: Interior
Architecture
Visual Work: Book
Medium/a Ornamenting
Library (architecture)
also the books in it (with the portraits of their authors " cum imaginibus suis")
Person Engaged in Act of Ornamenting
Wealthy homeowners
Notes
The books compared in the wider passage to Corinthian bronzes, panel paintings, and other ornaments like citrus-wood and ivory bookcases: visual works and media
Item Identifier
A00248
Determination
Derived directly from text