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Seneca: The Tragedies

Seneca: The Tragedies

Seneca
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
Slavitt, David R.

Paperback

Series: Seneca (Hardcover), Book 2

Literary CriticismAncient RomePlays

ISBN10: 0801849322
ISBN13: 9780801849329
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: Dec 1 1994
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.89 Width: 5.89 Depth: 8.98
Language: English

Plays and translators: Octavia, Kelly Cherry * Hercules Oetaeus, Stephen Sandy * Oedipus, Rachel Hadas * The Phoenician Women, David Slavitt * Hercules Furens, Dana Gioia.

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.

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