Seneca: The Tragedies (1) - Couverture souple

Seneca

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 080184309X ISBN 13 : 9780801843099

Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992

Synopsis

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 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.

In these lively renditions into contemporary English, David R. Slavitt does for Seneca what he accomplished for Virgil and Ovid, calling attention to the extraordinary work of a great Latin poet and making it accessible and appealing to modern readers. The volume includes five of Seneca's extant tragedies-Trojan Women, Thyestes, Phaedra, Medea, and Agamemnon-plus a preface.

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À propos de l'auteur

David R. Slavitt is a poet, translator, novelist, critic, and journalist. He is author of more than seventy works of fiction, poetry, and poetry and drama in translation.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 080184309X
• ISBN 13: 9780801843099
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
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