Publication Date
2018
Publication Place
Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England -
Harvard University Press, 2018.
Subject
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D. - Translations into English., Octavia, Empress, consort of Nero, Emperor of Rome, approximately 42-62 - Drama., Agamemnon, King of Mycenae (Mythological character) - Drama., Thyestes, King of Olympia and Mycenae (Mythological character) - Drama., Oedipus (Greek mythological figure) - Drama., Hercules (Roman mythological character) - Drama.
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
663
Physical Dimensions
17 cm
Library
The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)
Record ID
3100001~!120565~!4968
Library Location
HS-SS Stacks
Date
2018
Notes
The attribution of "Hercules on Oeta" and "Octavia" to Seneca is disputed., "First edition published 2004."--Title page verso., Includes bibliographical references and index., Texts in Latin with English translations on facing pages; introductions and notes in English.. The attribution of "Hercules on Oeta" and "Octavia" to Seneca is disputed., "First edition published 2004."--Title page verso., Includes bibliographical references and index., Texts in Latin with English translations on facing pages; introductions and notes in English.. 120565. vii, 663 pages ; 17 cm.. Revised 2018.
Sample Text
"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. Seneca's plays depict intense passions and interactions in rhetoric that is equally strong. Their perspective is much bleaker than that adopted in his prose writings. His plots are based on mythical episodes, in keeping with classical tradition. But the political realities of imperial Rome are also reflected 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. John G. Fitch has thoroughly revised his two-volume edition of Seneca's Tragedies to take account of the textual and interpretive scholarship that has appeared since its initial publication. His translation conveys the force of Seneca's dramatic language and the lyric quality of his choral odes."--
ISBN
9780674997189, 0674997182
Seri
Loeb classical library 78, Seneca ; IX. Tragedies ; II, Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D. Works. English (Loeb classical library) ; 9., Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D. Works. Latin (Loeb classical library) ; 9., Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D. Tragedies. English (Fitch) ; 2., Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D. Tragedies. Latin (Fitch) ; 2., Loeb classical library 78.
