Phaedra and Other Plays - Couverture souple

Seneca

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140455515 ISBN 13 : 9780140455519

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 2011

Synopsis

Living in Rome under Caligula and later a tutor to Nero, Seneca witnessed the extremes of human behaviour. His shocking and bloodthirsty plays not only reflect a brutal period of history but also show how guilt, sorrow, anger and desire lead individuals to violence. The hero of Hercules Insane saves his own family from slaughter, only to commit further atrocities when he goes mad. The horrifying death of Astyanax is recounted in Trojan Women, and Phaedra deals with forbidden love. In Oedipus a nervous man discovers himself, while Thyestes recounts the bitter family struggle for a crown. Of uncertain authorship, Octavia dramatizes Nero's divorce from his wife and her deportation. The only Latin tragedies to have survived complete, these plays are masterpieces of vibrant, muscular language and psychological insight.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Lucius Annaeus Seneca statesman, philosopher, advocate and man of letters, was born at Cordoba in Spain around 4 BC. He rose to prominence in Rome, pursuing a career in the courts and political life while also acquiring celebrity as an author of tragedies and essays. After retiring from public life, he devoted his last three years to philosophy and writing. Following the discovery of a plot against the emperor, in which he was thought to be implicated, he and many others were compelled by Nero to commit suicide in AD 65.

R. Scott Smith is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of New Hampshire. His books include An Anthology of Classical Myth (as co-editor and translator) and The Unknown Socrates (as co-editor and contributor).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0140455515
• ISBN 13: 9780140455519
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 326
• Éditeur: Smith R. Scott
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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