Hercules ; Trojan women ; Phoenician women ; Medea ; Phaedra

Author(s)

• Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
• Fitch, John G.

Bibliographic Information

Hercules ; Trojan women ; Phoenician women ; Medea ; Phaedra

Seneca ; edited and translated by John G. Fitch

（The Loeb classical library, 62 . Seneca ; 8 ; Tragedies ; 1）

Harvard University Press, 2002

Other Title

Tragedies

Note

Latin text and English translation on opposite pages

Bibliography: p. 31-33

Description and Table of Contents

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, 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.

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Details

• NCID: BA58565620
• ISBN:
  • 067499602X
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: englat
• Original Language Code: lat
• Place of Publication: Cambridge, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: vii, 551 p.
• Size: 17 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC7 : 131.56
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00254115