Phaedra

Author(s)

• Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
• Ahl, Frederick

Bibliographic Information

Phaedra

Seneca ; translated with an introduction by Frederick Ahl

（Masters of Latin literature）

Cornell University Press, 1986

• : pbk : alk. paper

Other Title

Phaedra

Uniform Title

Phaedra

Note

Translation of: Phaedra

Includes bibliographical references

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Ahl's translations of three Senecan tragedies will gratify and challenge readers and performers. With stage performance specifically in mind, Ah1 renders Seneca's dramatic force in a modern idiom and style that move easily between formality and colloquialism as the text demands, and he strives to reproduce the richness of the original Latin, to retain the poetic form, images, wordplays, enigmas, paradoxes, and dark humor of Seneca's tragedies. Here is a moving and accomplished translation of this complex play dealing the the violent passions stirred by innocence and beauty and the terrible power of ideology, hatred, and misunderstanding.

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Details

• NCID: BA2166416X
• ISBN:
  • 0801494338
• LCCN: 86047634
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: lat
• Place of Publication: Ithaca
• Pages/Volumes: 122 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PA6666.P5
  • DC19 : 872/.01
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Phaedra (Greek mythology) -- Drama
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA1347964X