Seneca: Moral Epistles
Philosopher, dramatist, rhetorician, Stoic and pragmatist, Seneca was one of the most contradictory figures in ancient Rome, embracing a stern ascetic morality while amassing a fortune under Nero and eventually committing suicide.
Emily Wilson es profesora de Estudios Clásicos en la Escuela de Artes y Ciencias de la Universidad de Pensilvania (EE.UU), y experta en literatura clásica y comparada.
Among the numerous tragedies attributed to Ennius is at least one entitled Medea Exul (Medea Exiled), and possibly another Medea as well, although these may be the same play.30 Medea Exul appears to be a translation of Euripides.
In both plays Eteocles and Polynices die; Seneca's play abruptly ends before they join battle. Seneca's Phoenissae consists of only 664 lines and does not contain a chorus. This suggests that Seneca did not complete this work and that ...
This new edition concentrates on the dramatic qualities of Phaedra and examines the Greek and Roman background to the play, particularly Seneca's use of Euripides and Ovid, and its philosophical elements grounded in Seneca's Stoicism.
What is it that is yours? Yourself; the best part of you.” In the year 62, citing health issues, the Roman philosopher Seneca withdrew from public service and devoted his time to writing.
'The influence of pantomime on Seneca's tragedies' in Hall and Wyles (eds) New Directions in Ancient Pantomime. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 227–57. Zanobi, A. 2014. Seneca's Tragedies and the Aesthetics of Pantomime.
A commentary on Livy: books vi–x, vol. ii: Books vii–viii, Oxford 2005a. A commentary on Livy: books vi–x, vol. iii: Book ix, Oxford 2005b. A commentary on Livy: books vi–x, vol. iv: Book BIBLIOGRAPHY 325.
Hercules is the best-known character from classical mythology. Seneca's play Hercules Furens presents the hero at a moment of triumph turned to tragedy.
Statesman, dramatist, philosopher, and prose stylist, Seneca was a leading figure in the Roman Empire in the first century AD. This volume is a collection of outstanding articles written about him during the last four decades, with a new ...
Veyne's authoritative exposition of stoicism and the interconnections between Seneca's life and thought, make this book ideal reading for anyone interested in Roman history and philosophy.
... Octavia', in id. (ed.), The Tragedy of Nero's Wife: Studies on the Octavia Praetexta = Prudentia, 35. 1 (2003), 1–12. The play may have been written very soon after the end of Nero's reign; see P. Kragelund, Prophecy, Populism, and ...
The surprise is that Seneca's world is so like our own. This volume includes five of Seneca's tragedies--"Trojan Women, Thyestes, Phaedra, Medea" and "Agamemnon". (Drama)
Notable for, among other things, their portrait of a providential universe and defense of the life of virtue, the nine dialogues included in this volume illustrate the deeply intertwined cosmological and moral arguments of ancient Rome’s ...
This volume offers clear and forceful contemporary translations of the most important of Seneca's 'Moral Essays': On Anger, On Mercy, On the Private Life and the first four books of On Favours.
Notable for, among other things, their portrait of a providential universe and defense of the life of virtue, the nine dialogues included in this volume illustrate the deeply intertwined cosmological and moral arguments of ancient Rome's ...