Six Tragedies

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Seneca Emily Wilson (Associate Professor of Classics, University of Pennsylvania)

Six Tragedies

Seneca, Emily Wilson (Associate Professor of Classics, University of Pennsylvania)

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Worlds Classics
14 January 2010

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Plays & playscripts

Series: Oxford World's Classics

Phaedra
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Oedipus
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Medea
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Trojan Women
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Hercules Furens
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Thyestes

Seneca's plays are the product of a sensational, frightening, and oppressive period of history.

Tutor to the emperor Nero, Seneca lived through uncertain and violent times, and his dramas depict the extremes of human behaviour. Rape, suicide, child-killing, incestuous love, madness and mutilation afflict the characters, who are obsessed and destroyed by their feelings.

Passion is constantly set against reason, and passion wins out.

Seneca forces us to think about the difference between compromise and hypocrisy, about what happens

when emotions overwhelm judgement, and about how, if at all, a person can be good, calm, or happy in a corrupt society and under constant threat of death.

Seneca was one of the most prolific, versatile, and influential of all classical Latin writers, and the only tragic playwright from ancient Rome whose work survives. This new edition of his six best plays captures Seneca's style in a verse translation that is both lively and accurate. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

By: Seneca
Translated by: Emily Wilson (Associate Professor of Classics University of Pennsylvania)
Imprint: Worlds Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 215g
ISBN: 9780192807069
ISBN 10: 0192807064
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Publication Date: 14 January 2010
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Phaedra Oedipus Medea Trojan Women Hercules Furens Thyestes

Reviews for Six Tragedies

This edition of Seneca's tragedies is fresh, affordable, and teachable. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review * A fine new translation. * William Fitzgerald, Times Literary Supplement * Wilson catches the beauty of their descriptive passages with simple felicity. * TLS, * I am awstruck by how good this is * Times Literary Supplement, A. N. Wilson's Book of The Year, 3/12/2010 *