Seneca: The Tragedies - Couverture rigide

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0801849314 ISBN 13 : 9780801849312

Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995

Synopsis

In "Seneca: The Tragedies, Volume 1" David Slavitt presented renditions into contemporary English of five of the surviving tragedies of Seneca. Now Slavitt brings together a group of translators in a second and final volume that brings to completion this collection of Seneca's extant tragedies.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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 history 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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801849314
• ISBN 13: 9780801849312
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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