The Phaedra of Seneca (Latin Edition) - Softcover

Gilbert Lawall; Lucius Annaeus Seneca; Sarah Lawall; Gerda Kunkel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0865160163 ISBN 13: 9780865160163

Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2007

Synopsis

Illustrated rapid reader. Book includes an analysis of the play, vocabulary, study questions, stage directions, and a new translation of the Hippolytus by Euripides.

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Review

The purpose of this book, according to its editor-authors, is to make one of the influential master works of Roman tragic poetry readily accessible to students in their second or third year of college Latin (p. 1). In Part I the unaltered Latin text (that of Giardina, Bologna, 1966) is presented with macrons and full stage directions in English. Each page of the Latin text is accompanied by running vocabularies, translation aids, identification of the mythological allusions, and a labeling of the meter employed. Part II includes a detailed discussion of metrics and study questions and comments on Seneca's text. The study questions and comments are grouped by line numbers. A new translation of The Hippolytus of Euripides is included for careful study alongside the Latin play (p. 1). Several black-and-white photographs relating to the story of Phaedra or to Roman theater are also included.

The study questions and comments provide abundant material for class discussion or independent study. They almost compel the student to read the text carefully and perceptively. The Latin-English vocabulary and translation aids which face each page of the Latin text greatly facilitate the reading. The new and highly readable translation of The Hippolytus of Euripides is welcome and convenient.

Though the book was developed with college students in mind, it could probably be used successfully by advanced high school students or by adults who wish to do some independent reading in Latin literature.

The publishers and author-editors deserve our thanks and congratulations for making this stimulating edition widely available in economical format. --Rudolph Masciantonio, New England Classical Newsletter

The Phaedra and the Menaechmi are especially good to see, as we plan to offer Roman Drama as a topic for our Advanced Latin Institute next summer (1983). Since we provide vocabulary glosses for students to ease the pressure of using, the dictionary, the appearance of your volumes will save us a great deal of work. --Floyd L. Moreland, The Graduate School and University Center

About this edition

• Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0865160163
• ISBN 13: 9780865160163
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248