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Phaedra and Other Plays

Phaedra and Other Plays

Smith, R. Scott
Seneca
Smith, R. Scott

Paperback

Series: Penguin Classics

Literary CriticismFiction AnthologiesPlays

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ISBN10: 0140455515
ISBN13: 9780140455519
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: Aug 25 2011
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
Living in Rome under Caligula and later a tutor to Nero Seneca witnessed the extremes of human behaviour. His shocking and bloodthirsty plays not only reflect a brutal period of history but also show how guilt sorrow anger and desire lead individuals to violence. The hero of Hercules Insane saves his own family from slaughter only to commit further atrocities when he goes mad. The horrifying death of Astyanax is recounted in Trojan Women and Phaedra deals with forbidden love. In Oedipus a nervous man discovers himself while Thyestes recounts the bitter family struggle for a crown. Of uncertain authorship Octavia dramatizes Nero's divorce from his wife and her deportation. The only Latin tragedies to have survived complete these plays are masterpieces of vibrant muscular language and psychological insight.

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