| Seneca, the Tragedies Contributor(s): Seneca (Author), Slavitt, David R. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 080184309X ISBN-13: 9780801843099 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press OUR PRICE: $29.45 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 1992 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | Ancient & Classical - History | Ancient - Rome - Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical |
| Dewey: 882.01 |
| LCCN: 91036347 |
| Series: Seneca (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 5.95" W x 9.08" (0.73 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Slavitt, David R.: - David R. Slavitt, poet, novelist, critic, and journalist, has published more than fifty books. His translations include the Metamorphoses of Ovid, The Fables of Avianus, the "Eclogues" and "Georgics" of Virgil, and Seneca: The Tragedies, Vols. 1 and 2, all available from Johns Hopkins.Slavitt, David R.: - David R. Slavitt, poet, novelist, critic, and journalist, has published more than fifty books. His translations include the Metamorphoses of Ovid, The Fables of Avianus, the "Eclogues" and "Georgics" of Virgil, and Seneca: The Tragedies, Vols. 1 and 2, all available from Johns Hopkins. |