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Seneca: Hercules Furens

Av Neil Bernstein, Thomas Harrison

Del i serien Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy

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Hercules is the best-known character from classical mythology. Seneca’s play Hercules Furens presents the hero at a moment of triumph turned to tragedy. Hercules returns from his final labor, his journey to the Underworld, and then slaughters his family in an episode of madness. This play exerted great influence on Shakespeare and other Renaissance tragedians, and also inspired contemporary adaptations in film, TV, and comics. Aimed at undergraduates and non-specialists, this companion introduces the play’s action, historical context and literary tradition, critical reception, adaptation, and performance tradition.
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Neil W. Bernstein is Professor of Classics and World Religions, Ohio University, USA. He has written extensively on Roman literature and identity, including In the Image of the Ancestors: Narratives of Kinship in Flavian Epic (2008) and Ethics, Identity, and Community in Later Roman Declamation (2013).

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This slender yet richly informative book does much to cultivate greater appreciation for Seneca’s Hercules Furens … Its prose is lucid, engaging, and remarkably well-edited (I did not notice a single typographical error), and it offers a wealth of insights and a multiplicity of perspectives on Hercules Furens, and on representations of Hercules in Greek and Roman antiquity and beyond. It should inspire more people to read and teach this underappreciated play. One can envision it being effectively utilized in an undergraduate Advanced Latin Course focusing on Hercules Furens, or in an undergraduate mythology course that looks closely at the figure of Hercules.

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