Seneca
Subtitle: Thyestes (Duckworth Companions to Greek & Roman Tragedy) (Duckworth Companions to Greek & Roman Tragedy)
Publisher: Duckworth Publishers
Published: November 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780715632222
Subjects: Plays & playwrights: classical, early & medieval; Violence in literature; Theater - History & Criticism; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Ancient (Classical) Greek; Latin; Thyestes (Greek mythology) in literature; Thyestes; Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Performing Arts / Theater / General; Drama; ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D; Ancient and Classical; Seneca, Lucius Annaeus,; Thyestes (Greek mythology) in; Tragedy
First sentence: At the time of Nero (who ruled AD 54-68) Rome was a city with a population of more than one million people controlling an empire which encircled the Mediterranean basin, an empire stretching from Syria to Britain, from the Danubian lands to North Africa.