Phaedra and Other Plays

Name: Phaedra and Other Plays
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ISBN: 9780140455519

ISBN-10: 0140455515

ISBN-13: 9780140455519

Edition: 2011

Authors: Seneca, R. Scott Smith, R. Scott Smith, R. Scott Smith

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Living in Rome under Caligula and later a tutor to Nero, Seneca witnessed the extremes of human behaviour. His shocking and bloodthirsty plays not only reflect a brutal period of history but also show how guilt, sorrow, anger and desire lead individuals to violence. The hero of Hercules Insane saves his own family from slaughter, only to commit further atrocities when he goes mad. The horrifying death of Astyanax is recounted in Trojan Women, and Phaedra deals with forbidden love. In Oedipus a nervous man discovers himself, while Thyestes recounts the bitter family struggle for a crown. Of uncertain authorship, Octavia dramatizes Nero#x19;s divorce from his wife and her deportation. The…

Book details

List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/25/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.10" wide x 7.80" long x 0.82" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

R. Scott Smith (Ph.D., University of Southern California) is associate professor of ethics and Christian apologetics at Biola University. He is the author of Virtue Ethics and Moral Knowledge: Philosophy of Language After MacIntyre and Hauerwas(Ashgate, 2003), Truth and the New Kind of Christian(Crossway, 2005) and Naturalism and our Knowledge of Reality (Ashgate, 2012).



Acknowledgements


Introduction


Selected Further Reading


A Note on the Translation


Preface to Hercules Insane


Hercules Insane


Preface to Trojan Women


Trojan Women


Preface to Phaedra


Phaedra


Preface to Oedipus


Oedipus


Preface to Thyestes


Thyestes


Preface to Octavia


Octavia


Notes


Glossary