Oedipus ; Agamemnon ; Thyestes ; Hercules on Oeta ; Octavia

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Oedipus ; Agamemnon ; Thyestes ; Hercules on Oeta ; Octavia

Seneca ; edited and translated by John G. Fitch

(The Loeb classical library, 78 . Seneca ; 9 ; Tragedies ; 2)

Harvard University Press, 2004

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Fourth and fifth work probably not by Seneca

Latin text and English translation on opposite pages

Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

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. This volume completes the Loeb Classical Library's new two-volume edition of Seneca's tragedies. John Fitch's annotated translation, which faces Latin text, conveys the force of Seneca's dramatic language and the lyric quality of his choral odes. 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. The "Octavia" is our sole surviving example of a Roman historical play; set at Nero's court, it was probably written by an admirer of Seneca as statesman and dramatist.

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