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Four Tragedies and Octavia
Taschenbuch von Seneca
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Based on the legends used in Greek drama, Seneca's plays are notable for the exuberant ruthlessness with which disastrous events are foretold and then pursued to their tragic and often bloodthirsty ends. Thyestes depicts the menace of an ancestral curse hanging over two feuding brothers, while Phaedra portrays a woman tormented by fatal passion for her stepson. In The Trojan Women, the widowed Hecuba and Andromache await their fates at the hands of the conquering Greeks, and Oedipus follows the downfall of the royal House of Thebes. Octavia is a grim commentary on Nero's tyrannical rule and the execution of his wife, with Seneca himself appearing as an ineffective counsellor attempting to curb the atrocities of the emperor.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Based on the legends used in Greek drama, Seneca's plays are notable for the exuberant ruthlessness with which disastrous events are foretold and then pursued to their tragic and often bloodthirsty ends. Thyestes depicts the menace of an ancestral curse hanging over two feuding brothers, while Phaedra portrays a woman tormented by fatal passion for her stepson. In The Trojan Women, the widowed Hecuba and Andromache await their fates at the hands of the conquering Greeks, and Oedipus follows the downfall of the royal House of Thebes. Octavia is a grim commentary on Nero's tyrannical rule and the execution of his wife, with Seneca himself appearing as an ineffective counsellor attempting to curb the atrocities of the emperor.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Über den Autor
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c.4BC-AD65) was born in Cordoba, Spain, where he was brought up studying the traditional virtues of republican Roman life. He became a teacher of rhetoric but attracted attention for his incisive style of writing. Closely linked to Nero, his death was ordered by the emperor in AD65. Seneca committed suicide.

E.F. Watling had translated many ancient classics for Penguin, including plays of Sophocles and Plautus. He died in 1990.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Seneca: Four Tragedies And OctaviaIntroduction
Acknowledgement
Thyestes
Phaedra (or Hippolytus)
The Trojan Women
Oedipus
OctaviaAppendix I. Elizabethan translations and imitations
Appendix II. Passages from Seneca's prose
Details
Empfohlen (von): 18
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Genre: Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780140441741
ISBN-10: 0140441743
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Seneca
Übersetzung: Watling, E.
Hersteller: Penguin Books Ltd
Maße: 197 x 130 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Seneca
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.02.2005
Gewicht: 0,236 kg
Artikel-ID: 101431024
Über den Autor
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c.4BC-AD65) was born in Cordoba, Spain, where he was brought up studying the traditional virtues of republican Roman life. He became a teacher of rhetoric but attracted attention for his incisive style of writing. Closely linked to Nero, his death was ordered by the emperor in AD65. Seneca committed suicide.

E.F. Watling had translated many ancient classics for Penguin, including plays of Sophocles and Plautus. He died in 1990.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Seneca: Four Tragedies And OctaviaIntroduction
Acknowledgement
Thyestes
Phaedra (or Hippolytus)
The Trojan Women
Oedipus
OctaviaAppendix I. Elizabethan translations and imitations
Appendix II. Passages from Seneca's prose
Details
Empfohlen (von): 18
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Genre: Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780140441741
ISBN-10: 0140441743
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Seneca
Übersetzung: Watling, E.
Hersteller: Penguin Books Ltd
Maße: 197 x 130 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Seneca
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.02.2005
Gewicht: 0,236 kg
Artikel-ID: 101431024
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