Tragedies
About this book
"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.
Subjects
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- agamemnon (greek mythology)
- ancient philosophy
- classical drama
- classical mythology
- classical philology
- continental european drama (dramatic works by one author)
- correspondence
- criticism and interpretation
- drama
- dramaoctavia , approximately 42-62
- early works to 1800
- english drama (tragedy)
- english translations
- greek mythology
- hecuba (legendary character)
- hercules (roman mythology)
- klassieke oudheid
- latijn
- latin drama (tragedy)
- latin literature
- mythologie ancienne
- mythology, classical
- mythology, classical--drama
- oedipus (greek mythology)
- pa6664 .a2 1986
- seneca, lucius annaeus, approximately 4 b.c.-65 a.d.
- théâtre
- thyestes (greek mythology)
- tragédie latine
- tragedies
- tragedy
- translations from latin
- translations into catalan
- translations into english
- translations into italian
- translations into spanish