In this text, scholars explore both established questions, such as the playwright's subtleties of characterisation, his relation to contemporary Roman spectacle and art - and the problems arising in translating him to modern text or stage.
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Agamemnon
by Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, Philosophus
fromCambridge classical texts and commentaries
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"C. A.J. Littlewood approaches Seneca's tragedies more as Neronian literature than as Roman reworkings of Attic drama. In both literary and ethical aspects the tragedies are products of the Neronian age and primarily of a Latin literary tradition. It is a feature of Neronian lit…
Hercules furens
by Seneca, L. Annaeus, Philosophus,, (Lucius Annaeus), Billerbeck, Margarethe
fromMnemosyne
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Explores the moral struggles, political intrigues and violent vendettas that enmeshed Seneca, the ancient Roman writer and philosopher, in the brutal daily lives of the imperial family and the regime of his student, Nero.
"The life and works of Seneca pose a number of fascinating challenges. For one thing, how can we reconcile the bloody, passionate tragedies, with the prose works advocating a life of Stoic tranquility? An even more challenging question is, how are we to reconcile Seneca the Stoi…
In their practice of aemulatio, the mimicry of older models of writing, the Augustan poets often looked to the Greeks: Horace drew inspiration from the lyric poets, Virgil from Homer, and Ovid from Hesiod, Callimachus, and others. But by the time of the great Roman tragedian Sen…
