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Six Tragedies
Seneca
Translated by Emily Wilson
288 pages
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196x129mm
978-0-19-280706-9
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Paperback
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14 January 2010
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- The fullest single-volume verse translation of Seneca's tragedies, this edition includes six major plays by one of the most prolific, versatile, and influential of all classical Latin writers.
- Seneca is a writer for uncertain and violent times, whose plays are the product of a sensational and frightening period of history, and whose themes resonate today.
- Emily Wilson's new translation is lively, readable, and accurate, and corresponds line-for-line to Seneca's Latin.
- The Introduction provides a succinct account of Seneca's life and times, his philosophical beliefs, the literary form of the plays and their immense influence on European literature.
- Includes an up-to-date bibliography and explanatory notes which identify mythological allusions.
Phaedra * Oedipus * Medea * Trojan Women * Hercules Furens * Thyestes
Seneca's plays are the product of a sensational, frightening, and oppressive period of history. Tutor to the emperor Nero, Seneca lived through uncertain and violent times, and his dramas depict the extremes of human behaviour. Rape, suicide, child-killing, incestuous love, madness and mutilation afflict the characters, who are obsessed and destroyed by their feelings. Passion is constantly set against reason, and passion wins out. Seneca forces us to think about the difference between compromise and hypocrisy, about
what happens when emotions overwhelm judgement, and about how, if at all, a person can be good, calm, or happy in a corrupt society and under constant threat of death.
Seneca was one of the most prolific, versatile, and influential of all classical Latin writers, and the only tragic playwright from ancient Rome whose work survives. This new edition of his six best plays captures Seneca's style in a verse translation that is both lively and accurate.
ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions
by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Readership: Readers and performers of classical drama, students of classical studies including Latin literature, Greek and Roman drama, the classical tradition; students of literature including courses on Tragedy, Drama, Renaissance drama and its antecedents; mythology studies.
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Seneca Translated by Emily Wilson, Associate Professor of Classics, University of Pennsylvania
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"I am awstruck by how good this is" - Times Literary Supplement, A. N. Wilson's Book of The Year, 3/12/2010 "Wilson catches the beauty of their descriptive passages with simple felicity." - TLS, "A fine new translation." - William Fitzgerald, Times Literary Supplement "This edition of Seneca's tragedies is fresh, affordable, and teachable." - Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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Phaedra
Oedipus
Medea
Trojan Women
Hercules Furens
Thyestes
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