Four Tragedies and Octavia
$25.26
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
30 November 1976
Summary
Seneca’s Stage of Horrors: Four Tragedies and Octavia
A selection of Seneca’s most powerful and macabre plays.
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140441741 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140441743 |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Author: | Seneca, E. Watling |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 30 November 1976 |
| Weight: | 225g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 14mm |
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About The Author
Seneca
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.
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