Seneca

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Seneca, the TragediesPaperback, 1 April 1992

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Seneca (Hardcover)
Part of Series
Complete Roman Drama in Translation (Paperback)
Print Length
224 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Date Published
1 Apr 1992
ISBN-10
080184309X
ISBN-13
9780801843099

Description

Are there no limits to human cruelty? Is there any divine justice? Do the gods even matter if they do not occupy themselves with rewarding virtue and punishing wickedness? Seneca's plays might be dismissed as bombastic and extravagant answers to such questions-if so much of human were not "Senecan" in its absurdity, melodrama, and terror. Here is an honest artist confronting the irrationality and cruelty of his world-the Rome of Caligula, Claudius, and Nero-and his art reflects the stress of the encounter. The surprise, perhaps, is that Seneca's world is so like our own.

In these lively renditions into contemporary English, David R. Slavitt does for Seneca what he accomplished for Virgil and Ovid, calling attention to the extraordinary work of a great Latin poet and making it accessible and appealing to modern readers. The volume includes five of Seneca's extant tragedies-Trojan Women, Thyestes, Phaedra, Medea, and Agamemnon-plus a preface.

Product Details

Author:
Seneca
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
1 April 1992
Dimensions:
23.06 x 15.11 x 1.68 cm
ISBN-10:
080184309X
ISBN-13:
9780801843099
Language:
English
Location:
Baltimore
Pages:
224
Weight:
331.12 gm

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