Seneca

The Tragedies

AvSeneca,David R. Slavitt

Häftad, Engelska, 1995

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1995-01-26
Mått:152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:312
Förlag:Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:9780801849329
Översättare:David R. Slavitt

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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.

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

Innehållsförteckning

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