Seneca Hercules - Trojan Women - Phoenician Women Medea - Phaedra

Name: Seneca Hercules - Trojan Women - Phoenician Women Medea - Phaedra
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ISBN: 9780674996021

ISBN-10: 067499602X

ISBN-13: 9780674996021

Edition: 2002

Authors: John G. Fitch, Seneca

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Seneca is a figure of first importance in both Roman politics and literature: a leading adviser to Nero who attempted to restrain the emperor's megalomania; a prolific moral philosopher; and the author of verse tragedies that strongly influenced Shakespeare and other Renaissance dramatists. Here is the first of a new two-volume edition of Seneca's tragedies, with a fully annotated translation facing the Latin text. Seneca's plays depict intense passions and interactions in an appropriately strong rhetoric. Their perspective is much bleaker than that of his prose writings. In this new translation John Fitch conveys the force of Seneca's dramatic language and the lyric quality of his…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 9/30/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 560
Size: 4.25" wide x 6.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



General Introduction Hercules


Introduction Text and Translation Trojan Women


Introduction Text and Translation Phoenician Women


Introduction Text and Translation Medea


Introduction Text and Translation Phaedra


Introduction Text and Translation