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Independently of the merit or demerit of these tragedies, the circumstance of theirfibemg the only complete specimens which ascertain, in what manner and with fications and success the Romans the tragic muse to their clime, may ctte some interest in them A co principal Greek tragic poets on the o and Seneca on the other, will, it is believed, convince every one, that there IS not so zbroadf and deep a chasm between them as 1s ly supposed all perfection on one failme on the other, but that there IS in the t three traglc poets of Greece a developement perceptible, succeeded by a, decline of which the best tragedies of Seneca are but a coutur uatlon, and by no means a' distant one.
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'the first detailed commentary ever to be produced in English on a Senecan tragedy ... gives all the linguistic and metrical help an undergraduate might need' Classical Review 'the Oxford University Press is to be congratulated on publishing this excellent edition' Journal of Roman Studies 'an admirable new text of the Medea and a very valuable commentary of the type that opens new horizons' Prudentia
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- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 1527814971
- ISBN 13 9781527814974
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages85
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