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Author
Contributions
- Fitch, John G., editor, translator - Contributor
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D. - Contributor
Publication
2018 - Harvard University Press, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
130,750 words, Guess
Page Count
523 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL26962772M
- ISBN-139780674997172
- ISBN-100674997174
- OCLC Control Number1002834998
- OCLC Control Number1041111585
and 2 more
- OCLC Control Number1042955275
- Library of Congress Control Number2017956657
Classifications
- DDC872.01
- LCCPA6666.A1 F58 2018
- LCCPA6666.A1F58 2018
Description
"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." --
Subjects
Topics
Series Statement
- Loeb classical library -- 62
- Seneca -- VIII. Tragedies ; I
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