| Seneca: The Tragedies Revised Edition Contributor(s): Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (Author), Seneca (Author), Slavitt, David R. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0801849322 ISBN-13: 9780801849329 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press OUR PRICE: $29.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1994 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | Ancient & Classical - Literary Criticism | Drama - History | Ancient - Rome |
| Dewey: 882.01 |
| LCCN: 91036347 |
| Series: Seneca (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.89" H x 5.89" W x 8.98" (1.07 lbs) 312 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Slavitt, David R.: - 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. |