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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.".
"Seneca's plots are based on mythical episodes, in keeping with classical tradition. But the political realities of imperial Rome are also reflected here, in an obsessive concern with power and dominion over others. Seneca's plays depict gigantic passions and intense interactions in an appropriately forceful rhetoric. Their perspective is much bleaker and more tragic 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 choral odes."--BOOK JACKET.
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Drama, Classical Mythology, Latin drama (Tragedy), Translations into English, Hecuba (Legendary character), Early works to 1800, Tragedy, Translations into Italian, English Translations, Ancient Philosophy, Translations into Spanish, Latin literature, Correspondence, English drama (Tragedy), Translations into Catalan, Translations from Latin, Greek Mythology, Hercules (Roman mythology), Thyestes (Greek mythology), Oedipus (Greek mythology), Agamemnon (Greek mythology), Classical drama, Seneca, lucius annaeus, approximately 4 b.c.-65 a.d., Mythology, classical, Continental european drama (dramatic works by one author), Classical philology, Tragédie latine, Mythologie ancienne, Théâtre, Latijn, Klassieke oudheid, Tragedies, Dramaoctavia , approximately 42-62, Mythology, classical--drama, Pa6664 .a2 1986, 872/.01Showing 6 featured editions. View all 62 editions?
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Seneca
2002, Harvard University Press, Brand: university harvard
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L. Annaei Senecae Tragoediae: incertorum auctorum Hercules (Oetaeus), Octavia
1986, E Typographeo Clarendoniano
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0198146574 9780198146575
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L. Annei Senecae Tragoediae: cu[m] duobus co[m]mentis.
1493, Per Matheu[m] Capcasam, Parmensem
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Bibliography: p. xiii-xvii.
Includes index.
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