num_pages: 128
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.
language: English
title: Medea
titlecomplete: Medea (Masters of Latin Literature)
genres: Classics, School, Mythology, Drama, Tragedy, Philosophy, Plays, Fiction, Poetry, Theatre
ratings_count: 3729
publisher: Cornell University Press