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Seneca: Agamemnon

Seneca: Agamemnon

Seneca
Tarrant, R. J.
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, Book 18

LatinMiscellaneous LanguagesFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 052160933X
ISBN13: 9780521609333
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Aug 26 2004
Pages: 420
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.93 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Seneca's tragedy Agamemnon is a brilliantly rhetorical piece, written for the study rather than the stage. In this edition Professor Tarrant provides a much needed critical text. In his introduction he discusses the sources, dating, structure and mode of production of Agamemnon and Senecan drama in general, and includes a detailed survey of the manuscript tradition. His commentary is the fullest yet published on a Senecan play and attempts both to interpret the text and to define the originality of Senecan drama by placing it in its proper literary context; it contains material illustrating Seneca's relationship to earlier Greek and Roman drama, Augustan poetry (Ovid's in particular), and the rhetoric of declamation. This edition will be welcomed by classical scholars and students of Latin poetry, and may also prove valuable to those interested in Seneca's influence on later European drama.

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