Download or read book Seneca s Phoenissae written by M. Frank and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first commentary to be written in English on Seneca's Phoenissae, an intriguing work on account of its unusual structure and state of incompletion. The substantial introduction deals, inter alia, with the question of the unity and purpose of the work; the absence of an ending and of choral lyrics; the philosophical, rhetorical, and political content; Seneca's treatment of the Theban legend. The commentary is primarily a literary analysis of the text, but textual, linguistic, metrical, and grammatical difficulties are also elucidated. With the resurgence of interest in Senecan drama in the last two decadese, this book is a valuable addition to English commentaries that appeared on most of the plays.

Download or read book The Phoenician Women written by Seneca and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phoenissae (Phoenician women) is a fabula crepidata (Roman tragedy with Greek subject) written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca; with c. 664 lines of verse it is his shortest play. It's situated in Thebes in Boeotia, the city founded by Cadmus, who came from Sidon, in Phoenicia.Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC - AD 65), fully Lucius Annaeus Seneca and also known simply as Seneca, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and--in one work--humorist of the Silver Age of Latin literature. As a tragedian, he is best-known for his Medea and Thyestes.He was a tutor and later advisor to emperor Nero. He was forced to take his own life for alleged complicity in the Pisonian conspiracy to assassinate Nero. However, some sources state that he may have been innocent. His father was Seneca the Elder, his elder brother was Lucius Junius Gallio Annaeanus, and his nephew was the poet Lucan.Seneca was born in Cordoba in Hispania, and raised in Rome, where he was trained in rhetoric and philosophy. Miriam Griffin says in her biography of Seneca that "the evidence for Seneca's life before his exile in 41 is so slight, and the potential interest of these years, for social history as well as for biography, is so great that few writers on Seneca have resisted the temptation to eke out knowledge with imagination." Griffin also infers from the ancient sources that Seneca was born in either 8, 4, or 1 BC. She thinks he was born between 4 and 1 BC and was a resident in Rome by AD 5. Seneca says that he was carried to Rome in the arms of his mother's stepsister. Griffin says that, allowing for rhetorical exaggeration, means "it is fair to conclude that Seneca was in Rome as a very small boy." Be that as it may, it is clear that he was in Rome at a relatively early stage in his life.

Download or read book Seneca s Phoenissae written by Marica Frank and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Seneca S Tragedies written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Seneca written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plays and translators: Octavia, Kelly Cherry * Hercules Oetaeus, Stephen Sandy * Oedipus, Rachel Hadas * The Phoenician Women, David Slavitt * Hercules Furens, Dana Gioia. Are there no limits to human cruelty? Is there any divine justice? Do the gods even matter if they do not occupy themselves with rewarding virtue and punishing wickedness? Seneca's plays might be dismissed as bombastic and extravagant answers to such questions—if so much of human history were not "Senecan" in its absurdity, melodrama, and terror. Here is an honest artist confronting the irrationality and cruelty of his world—the Rome of Caligula, Claudius, and Nero—and his art reflects the stress of the encounter. The surprise, perhaps, is that Seneca's world is so like our own.

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Download or read book Seneca Oedipus written by Susanna Braund and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oedipus, king of Thebes, is one of the giant figures of ancient mythology. Through the centuries, his story has inspired works of epic poetry, lyric poetry, tragedy, opera, a gospel musical and more. The myth has been famously deployed in psychology by Sigmund Freud. It may not be too bold to claim that Oedipus is the name from Greco-Roman mythology best known beyond the academy at the present time, thanks to Freud's famous phrase 'the Oedipus complex'. The most famous version of the Oedipus myth from antiquity is the Greek play by Sophocles. But there is another version, the Latin drama by the Roman philosopher and politician Seneca. Seneca's version is an entirely different treatment from that of Sophocles and reflects concerns special to the author and his Roman audience in the first century AD. Moreover, the play actually exercised a much greater influence on European literature and thought than has usually been suspected. This book offers a compact and incisive study of the multi-faceted Oedipus myth, of Seneca as dramatist, of the distinctive characteristics of Seneca's play and of the most important aspects of the reception of the play in European drama and culture. The scope of the book ranges chronologically from Homer's treatment of Oedipus myth in the Odyssey down to a twenty-first century Senecan treatment by a Lebanese Canadian dramatist. No knowledge of Latin or other foreign languages is required.

Download or read book Seneca in Ten Volumes written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Seneca s Tragedies written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Philosophus) and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Seneca in Nine Volumes written by Sénèque and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Complete Tragedies Volume 1 written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1 contains the following plays attributed to Seneca: Medea, The Phoenician Women, Phaedra, The Trojan Women, Octavia--obviously it has a slightly female spin.

Download or read book Seneca s tragedies written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Philosophus.) and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca Tragedies Epistles Essays Illustrated written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 2320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a writer, Seneca is known for his philosophical works, and for his plays, which are all tragedies. His prose works include a dozen essays and one hundred twenty-four letters dealing with moral issues. Seneca's influence on later generations is immense—during the Renaissance he was "a sage admired and venerated as an oracle of moral, even of Christian edification; a master of literary style and a model for dramatic art." THE TRAGEDIES THE MADNESS OF HERCULES THE TROJAN WOMEN THE PHOENICIAN WOMEN PHAEDRA THYESTES HERCULES ON OETA AGAMEMNON OEDIPUS MEDEA OCTAVIA THE EPISTLES TO MARCIA, ON CONSOLATION TO MY MOTHER HELVIA, ON CONSOLATION TO POLYBIUS, ON CONSOLATION THE MORAL EPISTLES THE ESSAYS ON ANGER ON THE SHORTNESS OF LIFE THE PUMPKINIFICATION OF THE DIVINE CLAUDIUS ON THE FIRMNESS OF THE WISE PERSON ON CLEMENCY ON THE HAPPY LIFE ON LEISURE NATURAL QUESTIONS ON BENEFITS ON TRANQUILLITY OF MIND ON PROVIDENCE

Download or read book Phoenissae written by Seneca and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The disgraced and blinded King Oedipus is wandering in exile after falling from power, accompanied by his faithful daughter, Antigone. Oedipus begs Antigone to allow him to end his miserable life, but Antigone dissuades him and says that she will never leave him. She reveals incidentally that Oedipus' wife and mother Jocasta is still alive, and also that his son Polynices is in the process of leading an army to retake the city of Thebes from his own brother, Eteocles, who has usurped the throne.In the second part of the play, the scene changes to the battleground outside Thebes. Jocasta tries to mediate between the two brothers and particularly appeals to Polynices to reconsider his attack, but her pleas fail and the play breaks off just as Polynices is about to attack the city.

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