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Six Tragedies (Oxford World's Classics)
Seneca
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Description for Six Tragedies (Oxford World's Classics)
Paperback. This is a lively, readable and accurate verse translation of the six best plays by one of the most influential of all classical Latin writers. The volume includes Phaedra, Oedipus, Medea, Trojan Women, Hercules Furens, and Thyestes, together with an invaluable introduction and notes. Translator(s): Wilson, Emily. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; DD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 195 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 212.
Phaedra * Oedipus * Medea * Trojan Women * Hercules Furens * Thyestes Seneca's plays are the product of a sensational, frightening, and oppressive period of history. Tutor to the emperor Nero, Seneca lived through uncertain and violent times, and his dramas depict the extremes of human behaviour. Rape, suicide, child-killing, incestuous love, madness and mutilation afflict the characters, who are obsessed and destroyed by their feelings. Passion is constantly set against reason, and passion wins out. Seneca forces us to think about the difference between compromise and hypocrisy, about what happens when emotions overwhelm judgement, and about how, ... Read more
Phaedra * Oedipus * Medea * Trojan Women * Hercules Furens * Thyestes Seneca's plays are the product of a sensational, frightening, and oppressive period of history. Tutor to the emperor Nero, Seneca lived through uncertain and violent times, and his dramas depict the extremes of human behaviour. Rape, suicide, child-killing, incestuous love, madness and mutilation afflict the characters, who are obsessed and destroyed by their feelings. Passion is constantly set against reason, and passion wins out. Seneca forces us to think about the difference between compromise and hypocrisy, about what happens when emotions overwhelm judgement, and about how, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780192807069
SKU
V9780192807069
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Reviews for Six Tragedies (Oxford World's Classics)
I am awstruck by how good this is
Times Literary Supplement, A. N. Wilson's Book of The Year, 3/12/2010
Wilson catches the beauty of their descriptive passages with simple felicity.
TLS,
A fine new translation.
William Fitzgerald, Times Literary Supplement
This edition of Seneca's tragedies is fresh, affordable, and teachable.
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Times Literary Supplement, A. N. Wilson's Book of The Year, 3/12/2010
Wilson catches the beauty of their descriptive passages with simple felicity.
TLS,
A fine new translation.
William Fitzgerald, Times Literary Supplement
This edition of Seneca's tragedies is fresh, affordable, and teachable.
Bryn Mawr Classical ... Read more