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INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
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0674990854
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067499602X
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9780674990852
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9780674996021
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
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b603654
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Tragedies
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
Seneca; edited and translated by John G. Fitch.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Cambridge, MA
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Harvard University Press
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2002-2004.
SERIES
Series Title
Loeb classical library, 62, 78.
GENERAL NOTES
Text of Note
Includes index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
v. I. Hercules. Trojan women. Phoenician women. Medea. Phaedra --; v. II. Oedipus. Agamemnon. Thyestes. Hercules on Oeta. Octavia.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Seneca (c. 4-65 CE) authored verse tragedies that strongly influenced Shakespeare and other Renaissance dramatists. Plots are based on myth, in keeping with classical tradition, but themes reflect imperial Roman politics. Powerful rhetoric conveys intensity and the perspective is much bleaker than in Seneca's prose writings.
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 choral odes.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Mythology, Classical -- Drama.
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, -- approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, -- approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D. -- Translations into English.
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Seneca; edited and translated by John G. Fitch.
PERSONAL NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
John G Fitch
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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