Seneca: The Tragedies (Volume 2) (Complete Roman Drama in Translation) - Softcover

Seneca

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801849322 ISBN 13: 9780801849329

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Book Description:

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

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0801849322
• ISBN 13: 9780801849329
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 261