| Phaedra Contributor(s): Seneca (Author), Ahl, Frederick (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0801494338 ISBN-13: 9780801494338 Publisher: Cornell University Press OUR PRICE: $13.95 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 1986 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | Ancient & Classical - History | Ancient - Greece |
| Dewey: 872.01 |
| LCCN: 86047634 |
| Series: Masters of Latin Literature |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 6" W x 8.7" (0.40 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - Greece |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Ahl's translations of three Senecan tragedies will gratify and challenge readers and performers. With stage performance specifically in mind, Ah1 renders Seneca's dramatic force in a modern idiom and style that move easily between formality and colloquialism as the text demands, and he strives to reproduce the richness of the original Latin, to retain the poetic form, images, wordplays, enigmas, paradoxes, and dark humor of Seneca's tragedies. Here is a moving and accomplished translation of this complex play dealing the the violent passions stirred by innocence and beauty and the terrible power of ideology, hatred, and misunderstanding. |