Tragedies

By Seneca the Younger, Paul Jal, François-Régis Chaumartin, F.-R. Chaumartin

Subjects: Tragedies, Thyestes (Greek mythology), Mythology, classical--drama, Tragédie latine, English drama (Tragedy), Classical philology, Translations into English, Latin drama (Tragedy), Translations into Spanish, Tragedy, 872/.01, Oedipus (Greek mythology), Greek Mythology, Translations from Latin, Dramaoctavia , approximately 42-62, English Translations, Hecuba (Legendary character), Ancient Philosophy, Théâtre, Seneca, lucius annaeus, approximately 4 b.c.-65 a.d., Early works to 1800, Pa6664 .a2 1986, Klassieke oudheid, Translations into Italian, Classical Mythology, Drama, Translations into Catalan, Hercules (Roman mythology), Latijn, Mythology, classical, Latin literature, Mythologie ancienne, Continental european drama (dramatic works by one author), Correspondence, Classical drama, Latin drama (tragedy), Agamemnon (Greek mythology)

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."--BOOK JACKET.