Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Sénèque (0004 av. J.-C.-0065)
Titre conventionnel : [Tragédies (latin-anglais). 2018]
Titre(s) : Hercules [Texte imprimé] ; Trojan women ; Phoenician women ; Medea ; Phaedra / Seneca ; edited and translated by John G. Fitch
Traduction de : Hercules
Titre d'ensemble : Seneca in ten volumes. VIII, Tragedies ; 1
Lien au titre d'ensemble : Appartient à : Seneca
Appartient à : Tragedies
Édition : Revised 2018
Publication : Cambridge (Mass.) ; London : Harvard University Press, 2018
Description matérielle : xlviii, 523 pages ; 17 cm
Collection : Loeb classical library ; 62
Lien à la collection : The Loeb classical library
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references
Latin text, with introduction and facing translation in English.
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Fitch, John G. (1942-....). Éditeur scientifique
Indice(s) Dewey :
872.01 (23e éd.) = Poésie dramatique et théâtre latins - Jusque vers 0499 [oeuvre]
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780674997172. - ISBN 0674997174
EAN 9780674997172
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb455574554
Notice n° :
FRBNF45557455
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Résumé : 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. Seneca's plays depict intense passions and interactions
in rhetoric that is equally strong. Their perspective is much bleaker than that adopted
in his prose writings. His plots are based on mythical episodes, in keeping with classical
tradition. But the political realities of imperial Rome are also reflected in an obsessive
concern with power and dominion over others. The Octavia is our sole surviving example
of a Roman historical play; set at Nero's court, it was probably written by an admirer
of Seneca as statesman and dramatist. John G. Fitch has thoroughly revised his two-volume
edition of Seneca's Tragedies to take account of the textual and interpretive scholarship
that has appeared since its initial publication. His translation conveys the force
of Seneca's dramatic language and the lyric quality of his choral odes -- Provided
by the publisher
Table des matières : Hercules ; Trojan women ; Phoenician women ; Medea ; Phaedrea.
