About this title: 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 ...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Viking Pr
Date Published: 1966-10-01
ISBN-13:9780140441741ISBN:0140441743
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date Published: 1966
ISBN-13:9780140441741ISBN:0140441743
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date Published: 1966-10-30
ISBN-13:9780140441741ISBN:0140441743
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"This is not a corner of literature into which people wander by mistake or for a lark; if you're reading this book, you're an aficionado or, more likely, a student. Which is as it should be, because these plays are all irritatingly padded out with really dull, academic-feeling displays of mythological literacy. But the dramas themselves are actually entertainingly over-the-top in their depiction of terrible events - usually gory and involving the murder of children. The heightened (and not always tasteful) quality of the action, in combination with a style that constantly attempts to be both snappy and really really profound, sort of reminded me of "dark" superhero comics. Which made this a more amusing read than I had expected. I could even imagine some of these holding up quite well on stage... if carefully edited."
"The main reason I have read Seneca was for a class that I am taking in university. The first play, Thyestes, has been my favorite so far. Seneca has a talent of being illusive and yet bold at the same time. There is also alot of classical imagery which he uses that, unless you know your greek myth, takes a little background information. However even without the greek myth information the plays are still captivating and easy to follow."
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