Seneca : the tragedies
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Seneca : the tragedies
（Complete Roman drama in translation）
Johns Hopkins University Press, c1992-
- v. 1 : hbk.
- v. 1 : pbk.
- v. 2 : hbk.
- v. 2 : pbk.
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Contents of Works
- v. 1. Trojan women--Thyestes--Phaedra--Medea--Agamemnon
- v. 2. Oedipus--The madness of Hercules--A cloak for Hercules--Octavia--The Phoenician women
Description and Table of Contents
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v. 1 : hbk. ISBN 9780801843082
Description
"The language in these translations [is] as fresh and gleaming as blood just spilled."--Eleanor Wilner. "Slavitt's translation is...lively and sometimes witty."--'TimesLiterary Supplement.' "A good, sensational Senecan read."--'Queen's Quarterly' The volume includes 'Trojan Women', 'Thyestes', 'Phaedra', 'Medea', and 'Agamemnon', plus a preface.
Table of Contents
Preface
Trojan Women (Troades)
Thyestes
Phaedra
Medea
Agamemnon
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v. 1 : pbk. ISBN 9780801843099
Description
The volume includes Trojan Women, Thyestes, Phaedra, Medea, and Agamemnon, plus a preface.
Table of Contents
Preface
Trojan Women (Troades)
Thyestes
Phaedra
Medea
Agamemnon
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v. 2 : hbk. ISBN 9780801849312
Description
In "Seneca: The Tragedies, Volume 1" David Slavitt presented renditions into contemporary English of five of the surviving tragedies of Seneca. Now Slavitt brings together a group of translators in a second and final volume that brings to completion this collection of Seneca's extant tragedies.
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v. 2 : pbk. ISBN 9780801849329
Description
Are there no limits to human cruelty? Is there any divine justice? Do the gods even matter if they do not occupy themselves with rewarding virtue and punishing wickedness? Seneca's plays might be dismissed as bombastic and extravagant answers to such questions-if so much of human history were not "Senecan" in its absurdity, melodrama, and terror. Here is an honest artist confronting the irrationality and cruelty of his world-the Rome of Caligula, Claudius, and Nero-and his art reflects the stress of the encounter. The surprise, perhaps, is that Seneca's world is so like our own.
Table of Contents
Contents and translators: Octavia, Kelly Cherry * Hercules Oetaeus, Stephen Sandy * Oedipus, Rachel Hadas * The Phoenician Women, David Slavitt * Hercules Furens, Dana Gioia.
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