| Medea Contributor(s): Seneca (Author), Ahl, Frederick (Translator) |
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ISBN: 080149432X ISBN-13: 9780801494321 Publisher: Cornell University Press OUR PRICE: $12.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1986 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | Ancient & Classical |
| Dewey: 872.01 |
| LCCN: 86047635 |
| Series: Masters of Latin Literature |
| Physical Information: 0.31" H x 5.96" W x 9.06" (0.41 lbs) 116 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Ahl's translations of three Senecan tragedies will gratify and challenge readers and performers. With stage performance specifically in mind, Ahl renders Seneca's dramatic force in a modern idiom and style that move easily between formality and colloquialism as the text demands, and he strives to reproduce the richness of the original Latin, to retain the poetic form, images, wordplays, enigmas, paradoxes, and dark humor of Seneca's tragedies. In this powerful and imaginative translation of Medea, Frederick Ahl retains the compelling effects of the monologues, as well as the special feeling and pacing of Seneca's choruses. |