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 | #1762143 in Books |  Johns Hopkins University Press |  1995-12-01 | Original language:Latin | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.78 x5.75l,1.07 | File type: PDF | 261 pages

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||36 of 36 people found the following review helpful.| Good, but often more adaptation than translation|By A Customer|The "translations" in this two volume set aim at capturing the flavor of Seneca in roughly the same number of lines of poetry (most translations are longer than the originals, expanding upon the compacted Latin for the sake of literalness). These are good reading, and do capture something of the power of Seneca| |Plays and translators: 'Octavia,' Kelly Cherry * 'Hercules Oetaeus,' Stephen Sandy * 'Oedipus,' Rachel Hadas * 'The Phoenician Women,' David Slavitt * 'Hercules Furens,' Dana Gioia.|Language Notes|Text: English (translatio

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 Ner...

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