Hercules ; Trojan women ; Phoenician women ; Medea ; Phaedra
By: Seneca ; edited and translated by John G. Fitch
Contributors: Fitch, John G., editor, translator; Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Edition: Revised 2018.
Series: Loeb classical library -- 62; Seneca -- VIII. Tragedies ; I; Loeb classical library -- 62.; Seneca -- VIII. Tragedies ; I.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng; lat
Number of pages: 523
ISBN-13: 9780674997172
Subjects: Drama; Trojan War; Classical Mythology; Translations into English
Description: "Seneca is a figure of first importance in both Roman politics and literature: a leading adviser to Nero who attempted to restrain the emperor's megalomania; a prolific moral philosopher; and the author of verse tragedies that strongly influenced Shakespeare and other Renaissance dramatists. Here is the first of a new two-volume edition of Seneca's tragedies." "Seneca's plots are based on mythical episodes, in keeping with classical tradition. But the political realities of imperial Rome are also reflected here, in an obsessive concern with power and dominion over others. Seneca's plays depict gigantic passions and intense interactions in an appropriately forceful rhetoric. Their perspective is much bleaker and more tragic than that of his prose writings. In this new translation John Fitch conveys the force of Seneca's dramatic language and the lyric quality of his choral odes." --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Translated from the Latin with text in Latin on facing pages.